[132293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hartmann)
Fri Nov 19 12:21:58 2010
In-Reply-To: <00CFE37F-557E-4497-B431-477150BB3498@delong.com>
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:21:30 +0100
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.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 17:58, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do
> have byte sizes other than 8 bits
Vice versa. It's always two octects, but on some systems it may not be
two bytes.
>, although few of them are likely to have
> IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point.
Agreed.
We can revisit this once we all own a few portable quantum computers, though :)
Richard
