IPv6 Address Representation: Formats, Compression, and Prefix Notation
An IPv6 address is 128 bits long, written as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by colons, where each group represents 16 bits. Addresses can be written in lowercase or uppercase. The preferred format is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x, where each x is a group of four hexadecimal digits. Each such group is called a hextet —...
