[132425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Mon Nov 22 17:47:15 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:46:46 -0500
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4CE6784C.2090204@emanon.com>
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On Friday, November 19, 2010 08:14:52 am Scott Morris wrote:
> If 8 bits is a byte, then 16 bits should be a mouthful.
I thought the Jargon File settled that long ago: 4 bits = nybble, 8 bits = byte, 16 bits = playte, 32-bits = dynner. See http://dictionary.die.net/nybble
Since the zeros between double colons are indefinite length, call it the voyd and be done.
