The new successor to IPv4 should not make the same mistakes as IPv6.

- It MUST only have numbers and dots "."

Maybe we should allow IPv6 addresses to be written in dotted quad format with the quads not being limited to 0..255 but instead 0..4294967295

So instead of writing 2001:4860:4860::8888 we would write 536954976.1214251008.0.34952 which is clearly easier to use.

bonus: your old regex ^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$ will still work

Aled