[Iotops] Use of IPv6 addresses in browsers in IoT ?

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Dear IOTops

I was wondering how common you see the use of IPv6addresses in URLs in the IOT environments,
e.g.: when configuring IOT devices.

I am asking because we have some long-ongoing discuss re the need to support IPv6 link local addresses (LLA)
in URLs/browsers, especially with zone identifiers in the IPv6 LLA - because browsers have not
implemented it, and would love to avoid the work / don't see the business for this.

Of course, whenever mDNS is available its likely easier to use DNS names instead of IPv6 addresses,
but of course that too requires some well-known address schemes so you know the name a particular
device will be on (something like combination of model-name and mac-addrss as a string ...).

Thanks a lot for any insights.

Cheers
    Toerless