IPv6 addressing presentation

IPv6 addressing presentation

Rather than using dotted-decimal format, IPv6 addresses are written as hexadecimal numbers with colons between each set of four hexadecimal digits (which is 16 bits).
So ipv6 is a  16bit-eight coloned-hex ,The format is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where x is a 16-bit hexadecimal field.
 A sample address is as follows:

2035:0001:2BC5:0000:0000:087C:0000:000A

Fortunately, you can shorten the written form of IPv6 addresses. Leading 0s within each
set of four hexadecimal digits can be omitted, and a pair of colons (::) can be used, once
within an address, to represent any number of successive 0s but once in the address

2035:1:2BC5:: 87C:0:A

http://[ 2035:1:2BC5::87C:0:A ]/default.html


Consequently, some countries, such as Japan, are aggressively adopting IPv6. Others, such as those in the European Union are moving toward IPv6, and China is considering building pure IPv6 networks from the ground up.
As of October 1, 2003, even in North America, where Internet addresses are abundant, the U.S.Department of Defense (DoD) mandated that all new equipment purchased be IPv6-capable. In fact, the department intends to switch entirely to IPv6 equipment by 2008