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RFC 5952: A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation

says "The characters "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", and "f" in an IPv6 address MUST be represented in lowercase "[1]

One Reason for this, is that it can avoid redundancy if you submit a hexdecimal nummber by phone.

"However, when a letter is spelled uppercase,people tend to specify that it is uppercase, which is unnecessary information."[2]

If you care about typography and think mixing lower-case letters with upper-case numbers, you could argue, that oldstyle numbners aka. lower-case numbers could be a better fit.

[1]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-4.3

[2]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-3.3.3



Since the RFC came 42 years after the magazine article, and 27 years after I sold my first computer program (with data in hex), I'll just consider myself old fashioned.




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