It would be nice if local ipv6 spelled out "local"
imagine this: local::homelab in your url-bar just working
edit: Yes I know DNS solves this problem, but it would be very neat non the less, making 128bits of packet overhead actually serve a purpose without any software glue.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Reserved_doma...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-use_domain_name
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-davies-internal-...
Not sure how important that is.
Mostly for us humans of course.
IPv4 addresses are generally in base-10, but binary and octal can also technically be used (on the CLI).
Also, link local is almost always `fe80::` [0]. Today for privacy (and simplicity) reasons most devices pick a random address under that like `fe80::6923:83ab:201:273e`. But most operating systems allow configuring a static link address so if you really wanted you could use `fe80::403e:7ab` for something close to "homelab" (and `fe80::cafe` for your coffee maker) you absolutely can.
[0] The allocated range is fe80::/10 so fe(8|9|A|B)[0-F], but in practice it seems rare for devices today to use anything but fe80::.
Seems like you want to repurpose them to something completely different (what exactly)?
And what is “interpret this part of an IPv6 address completely differently than in all other contexts” if not software glue?