IPv6 address words

So you’ve finally decided to hop on the IPv6 bandwagon, but now you’re wondering what to use as IPv6 prefixes, and what addresses to assign to your machines. Ideally you should prepare and IPv6 addressing plan. If you’ve only got Why not take advantage of the hexadecimal notation and use some real words?

This page gives you some inspiration

Let me know if you have actually used this for production systems!

PS. I consider address picking to be the artistic freedom of the network administrator. However, should anyone ever complain about an address, just tell them it is part of the network cards’ MAC address, and that you use autoconfiguration.

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