Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'

Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by musicale on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:59PM (#21382178)

Non-memorability is an annoying problem for IPv6.

The IP internet seems to depend on some degree of manual configuration, which requires identifying numerical IP addresses.

It's puzzling that the IETF hasn't recommended a human-memorable, word-based scheme for prefixes, something like what3words for IPv6.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by musicale on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:07PM (#21382743)

Here is one project to represent them as haiku: https://gabrielbrady.com/projects/hipku/

We could also use syllabic encoding; for example, using 'bdfghjklmnprstvz' * 'aeio', we could encode 12 octet prefix

60:51:80:66:55:83:66:dc:56:fb:14:d1 as

ka-dediba-keneji-bokere-sejizi-sehohe

Which is somewhat easier to read and retype.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by iggldiggl on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:19AM (#21385862)

> Here is one project to represent them as haiku: https://gabrielbrady.com/projects/hipku/

Cute idea, although somehow in my opinion the IPv4 haikus tend to sound better than those representing IPv6 addresses.

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by edoceo on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:23PM (#21383492)

Wow, like mnemonic encoder. Imma try something real quick...

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Re:Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet A... by ipython on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:50PM (#21383020)

It’s really not that bad. You remember your prefix and then manually assign in your /64. The address space is so sparse the first part is easy to remember - so really we are talking about 24-32 bits hexadecimal here.

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