[132284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Israel)
Fri Nov 19 10:17:12 2010
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:16:55 -0500
From: David Israel <davei@otd.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 11/19/2010 4:57 AM, George Bonser wrote:
>>
>> It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a
>> social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though.
>>
>>
>> Richard
> That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble. We tend to call them "quads" at work. What do you call that indeterminate space between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in there? That's a bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"?
>
Yeah, I think I'd quibble with quibble; it's antagonistic. "Gulp" has
serious potential in casual conversation (especially because you can
refer to the excluded "::" portion as "the Big Gulp") but somehow I
don't see it used in technical documentation. I like "morsel,"
personally. (Well, I also like "collop," because it's arcane and sounds
vaguely dirty to me, but I don't think that would catch on.)
