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... or 39 characters total). This document specifies a more compact
representation of IPv6 addresses, which permits encoding in a mere 20
bytes.
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This document specifies a new encoding, which can always represent
any IPv6 address in 20 octets ...
... The New Encoding Format ...
... all 2^128 different IPv6 addresses, so 20 characters would be needed
even with base 94 encoding. As there are just 94 ASCII characters
(excluding control characters ...
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By encoding addresses in this form, it is less likely that a casual
observer will be able to immediately detect the binary form of the
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