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		merb on Aug 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design but it is (even adding a prefix) means that it is backwards compatible in some way.

efreak on Aug 11, 2017 [–]

Not as long as every preexisting application on your computer validates IP addresses and tells you that colons are not valid in IPs and domains.

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