[132297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Nov 19 13:59:19 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <00CFE37F-557E-4497-B431-477150BB3498@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:56:39 -0800
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 Nov 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
Oops... Hit send too fast...
> It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do
It is always two OCTETS. A byte is not always an octet...
> 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
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