Cloud computing has dramatically reshaped the whole IT industry in recent years.\r\nWith the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, services running in Cloud computing will face\r\nproblems associated with IPv6 addressing: the notation is too long (39 bytes),\r\nthere are too many variants of a single IPv6 address and a potential conflict may\r\nexist with conventional http_URL notation caused by the use of the colon (:).\r\nThis paper proposes a new scheme to represent an IPv6 address with a shorter,\r\nmore compact notation (27 bytes), without variants or conflicts with http_URL.\r\nThe proposal is known as dot-base62x as it is an IPv6 address with Base62x and uses\r\nthe well-known period (or dot) as a group delimiter instead of the colon. The relative\r\nmerits and demerits of other works that predate this paper have been reviewed\r\nand critically evaluated. Cloud computing, as a continuously emerging mainstream\r\nof network-based applications, is likely to be a forerunner in the use of IPv6 as the\r\nbase protocol. As a result, Cloud computing will benefit most from the new,\r\ncompact and user-friendly textual representation of IPv6 address proposed by\r\nthis paper.
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