On 7 Apr 2011, at 21:07, Richard Hartmann wrote:
>
> Anyway, after a long time of gathering feedback, we have boiled down
> the options to hextet and quibble. quibble remains in there mostly for
> historic reasons and to gather additional feedback. I do not think
> suggesting two separate terms is useful in the least and we hope to
> get input on this. The main problem with it is that quibble is
> overloaded in English and in a negative way. My money is on consensus
> evolving to drop it in -01.
>
> The second question on my mind is if using MUST for hextet is
> appropriate. Using SHOULD is fine as well though I personally think
> MUST is better to avoid any and all potential confusion.
Maybe hextet will grow on me. I'll start using it and see what funny looks or
comments I get :)
I also wouldn't object to people saying that an IPv6 address consists of eight
hexadecimal quads (given quad is used elsewhere for groups of 4 things).
I would say SHOULD though not MUST. If it catches on, people will just use it.
Tim
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