Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. (Score 2, Informative)

Note, though, that IPv6 was intended to solve more than just the address space exhaustion problem. More than anything the large address space was intended to deal w/ the growth of the core routing tables, along w/ allowing for cleaner auto-addressing (DHCPv6 is more for providing DNS server addresses instead of address allocation), IP mobility, and anonymous addressing. There's also the side benefit that network scanning becomes pretty damn hard...