[132292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nugent)
Fri Nov 19 12:14:26 2010
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:15:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Nugent <jjn@nuge.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <C463E812-C9EC-427B-838C-265D7568A50C@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Greetings,
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >> I'm sorry to quibble with the majority here, but, in this case, I think
> >> we have enough problems with ambiguous terminology in
> >> networking and this opportunity to avoid creating one more should
> >> not be missed.
> >
> (The above paragraph was mainly so that I had an opportunity to toss
> quibble into the text with it's other meaning).
>
> > Agreed. OTOH, Hextet is not technically correct while appearing to be so.
> >
>
>
> True... The correct term would be decohextet, but, decohextet is rather
> long both to say and to write and really doesn't roll off the tongue the
> way hextet does.
I like to call it a "HexNot" - a hexidecimal representation of zeros.
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