From what I can see, they're being referred to as a hextet though I'm
yet to find an official source. Googling for hextet ipv6 does return a
good number of results.
e.g.
http://www.linux-sxs.org/networking/ipv6_for_beginners.html
Looking at the RFC for IPv6 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460) I see
numerous references to octets but none to hextets, and have also
stumbled across a few sites that refer to them as octet pairs.
I think at the moment its a bit of a free-for-all :) Hextet makes the
most sense to me as a term, seems pointless to say "octet pair" when
there is a perfectly logical and linguistically consistent way to refer
to them.
Paul
On 10/28/2010 08:19 AM, Jeremy Charles wrote:
Our network team?s google-fu is coming up empty.
In IPv4:
216.165.132.0
...the digits between a pair of dots are called an octet.
In IPv6:
2620:0072:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000
...what do we call the digits between a pair of colons?
Bonus points for citing an authoritative-seeming source. :-)
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