content: Proposal: A hextet-to-word conversion system So, in the midst of all this controversy surrounding ICANN, I got to thinking. If we can't rely on using web addresses in the traditional sense, we can at least rely on the IP addresses. But it's no easy task to memorize scads of hexadecimal numbers. That's where words can come in handy. Suppose we take a list of 65,536 English words. This one, perhaps, though optimally it wouldn't contain any homophones, past tense, gerunds, words that share roots, or any other words that might be confused with other words on the list. Then we assign each word to a number from 0 to 65,535, so each hextet in an IPv6 address will have a corresponding word. IPv4 addresses would work as well, with only two words. Now imagine that these assignments of words to hextets are standardized. Imagine web browsers programmed to automatically take you to the IP address in question when you enter the words in the address bar. Imagine being able to share the words over the phone and in person without having to write down any numbers, just as you do with current web addresses. Maybe we don't need the ICANN's support after all.