That's a good reference and will no doubt be revised, given it's only been in 
the stream for a month or so.  In most discussions, please have been using 
"tuples".  Since they're making up words in the RFC proposal, I would suggest 
"hextets".

Mike

On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Elizabeth zwicky wrote:

> Http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming-02
> 
> That is as official, if not as constraining, as one might want.
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:34, Dan Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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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