[132431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Mon Nov 22 19:13:08 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:10:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Nov 19 11:05:33 2010
> Subject: Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.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
>
>
> 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.
I suppose one could call the explicitly-present fields 'bi-bytes', and the
compressed-out sequence the 'bye-bytes'.
