[132291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Nov 19 12:06:26 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikaUe4mH3MVmrGS4zLoEqOFryFKJGiE_-aEWSHP@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:58:45 -0800
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>
>> problem is, its not alwas ggoig to be two bytes...
>
> It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a
> social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though.
It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do
have byte sizes other than 8 bits, although few of them are likely to have
IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point.
Owen
