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RFC 1924: A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses (FTP) 
"IPv6 addresses, being 128 bits long, need 32 characters to write in the general case, if standard hex representation, is used, plus more for any punctuation inserted (typically about another 7 characters, or 39 characters total). This d
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924