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Table 3 Comparisons of dot-base62x and colon hexadecimal

From: Dot-base62x: building a compact and user-friendly text representation scheme of ipv6 addresses for cloud computing

No.

Fields

Colon hexadecimal

Dot-base62x

1

Encoding base

Base 16

Base62x

2

Separator

Colon (:)

Dot, full stop (.)

3

Number of separators

7

5

4

Segments/groups

8

6

5

Format address length

39

27

6

Minimum length

2(::)

11(0.0.0.0.0.0)

7

Maximum length

45

47

8

Average length

~37

~28

9

Bits operation

Each 4 bits

Each 6 bits

10

Format

xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

xxxx.xxxx.yxx.xxxx.xxxx.yxx

11

Example

2001:DB8:0:2F3B:2AA:FF:FE28:9C5A

W5ij.dTme.0.3z.Lx1J8.1x3x3

12

Variants

Multiple forms

Only one

13

Status

IETF RFC

Newly-invented