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Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
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> > ? ? ? ?problem is, its not alwas ggoig to be two bytes...
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> It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a
> social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though.
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>
> Richard
That's exactly what I was going to say but didn't want to quibble. We tend to call them "quads" at work. What do you call that indeterminate space between two colons :: where it might be four or more zeros in there? That's a bunch of nibbles, maybe a "gulp"?