> From [email protected] Fri Nov 19 11:05:33 > 2010 > Subject: Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming > From: Owen DeLong <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:58:45 -0800 > To: Richard Hartmann <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <[email protected]> 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'.
