IPv6 address

ID ipv6

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifier

128-bit address of Internet Protocol version 6, written as eight groups of up to four hexadecimal digits separated by colons (RFC 4291, section 2.2). One run of zero groups may be shortened to ::, and the last 32 bits may be written as an IPv4 address, as in ::ffff:192.0.2.128. RFC 5952 recommends lowercase and the shortest form, but data also holds full and uppercase forms, and the regexp accepts all of them. It does not accept a zone index (fe80::1%eth0) or a prefix length. 2001:db8::/32 is reserved for documentation (RFC 3849).

Parent datatype

IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) ipaddr

Categories

Internet, Personally identifiable information

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

AutoType benchmark

ipv6

Microsoft CDM

means.identity.IP6Address

W3C DPV

pd:IPAddress

FTA

IPADDRESS.IPV6

Microsoft Purview

IP Address v6

Quality

100/100

Metacrafter rules

1 rule (0 by field name, 1 by value)

ipv6 data, ext/ext_internet.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, DataHub classification, Dataiku DSS, DataPrep, Capital One DataProfiler, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, metacrafterpro, Metadata Guardian, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Soda, RedGate SQL Data catalog, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Regular expression

^(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){6}(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|::(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){5}(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){4}(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,1}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){3}(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,2}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){2}(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,3}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,4}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])){3})|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,5}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}|(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4}:){0,6}[0-9A-Fa-f]{1,4})?::)$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
2001:db8::1	Shortest form, documentation prefix (RFC 3849)
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329	Full form with leading zeros
::ffff:192.0.2.128	IPv4-mapped address
::1	Loopback address
2001:db8::1::2 invalid	:: used twice
2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 invalid	Nine groups
2001:db8::/32 invalid	A prefix, not an address

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	IPv6-адрес	128-битный адрес протокола IPv6: восемь групп шестнадцатеричных цифр через двоеточие, допускается сокращение ::.

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address
doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4291#section-2.2
doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5952

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