Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:

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> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
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>> 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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Oops... Hit send too fast...

> It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do

It is always two OCTETS. A byte is not always an octet...

> 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.
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> Owen
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