Hot Diggety! Jeremy Charles was rumored to have written:
> 
>    In IPv4:
> 
>    216.165.132.0
> 
>    ...the digits between a pair of dots are called an octet.

Yessir. 
 
>    In IPv6:
> 
>    2620:0072:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
> 
>    ...what do we call the digits between a pair of colons?
> 
>    Bonus points for citing an authoritative-seeming source.   :-)

You sure ask the hard questions, don't you? ;-)

Well, I can't find a clear authoritative cite from a quick look but the
wording of RFC2460 suggests '2-octet', '2 octet'?

http://ipv6.net/RFC/rfc-2460-internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-specification.html

Open to alternate suggestions, of course.

-Dan
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