Http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming-02 That is as official, if not as constraining, as one might want.
Elizabeth Sent from my iPad On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:34, Dan Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hot Diggety! Jeremy Charles was rumored to have written: >> >> In IPv4: >> >> 216.165.132.0 >> >> ...the digits between a pair of dots are called an octet. > > Yessir. > >> 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. :-) > > You sure ask the hard questions, don't you? ;-) > > Well, I can't find a clear authoritative cite from a quick look but the > wording of RFC2460 suggests '2-octet', '2 octet'? > > http://ipv6.net/RFC/rfc-2460-internet-protocol-version-6-ipv6-specification.html > > Open to alternate suggestions, of course. > > -Dan > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
