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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
