[132287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hartmann)
Fri Nov 19 11:05:56 2010
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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:05:29 +0100
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:57, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
> That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble. =C2=A0=
We tend to call them "quads" at work. =C2=A0What do you call that indetermi=
nate space between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in th=
ere? That's a bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"?
I don't call it anything. "The fourth $decided_upon is zero/empty" suffices=
:)
Though if that gap does not have a name yet, I suppose it can't hurt
to try and think of a canonical name, either.
Richard
