Hextet is in the current draft, which hasn't been updated and published 
yet: 
http://repo.or.cz/w/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming.git/commitdiff/284e0ea4cae7ed1ef064c588804010fd2a95ebec

--Ted

On 11/2/2010 9:37 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> That's a good reference and will no doubt be revised, given it's only been in 
> the stream for a month or so.  In most discussions, please have been using 
> "tuples".  Since they're making up words in the RFC proposal, I would suggest 
> "hextets".
>
> Mike
>
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Elizabeth zwicky wrote:
>
>> 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
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