* were never supposed to be seen on the wire. That assumption was dropped, some say mistakenly, in
 * later RFCs with the apparent aim of making IPv4-to-IPv6 transition simpler.
 *
 * <p>Technically one <i>can</i> create a 128bit IPv6 address with the wire format of a "mapped"
 * address, as shown above, and transmit it in an IPv6 packet header. However, Java's InetAddress