Tootfinder

So let me get this straight:
- You need to enclose #IPv6 addresses in square brackets when using them in URLs, because...
- The colon is already used to separate addresses from ports in URLs, and IPv6 uses colons to separate hex groups.
So the question is... why did IPv6 choose to separate parts with colons?! IPv4 used periods for that and I can't see why they wouldn't have wor…