I saw 'field' somewhere.... http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-2.1 seems to agree.
Frank On 11/19/2010 10:42 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Since the poll is a straight yes/no option with no preference, I will > express my preference here. While I find the term quibble fun and > amusing, I think hextet is a far more useful term because it does not > have the overloaded human semantics that come with quibble. > > I'm sorry to quibble with the majority here, but, in this case, I think > we have enough problems with ambiguous terminology in > networking and this opportunity to avoid creating one more should > not be missed. > > Owen > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> as most of you are aware, there is no definite, canonical name for the >> two bytes of IPv6 addresses between colons. This forces people to use >> a description like I just did instead of a single, specific term. >> >> Being highly pedantic Germans, this annoyed quite a few people within >> the DENOG community. This, in turn, lead to an I-D[1]. If any of you >> have any additional suggestions, you are more than welcome to share >> them. Additionally, I want to invite everyone to participate in an >> informal poll which we created[2]. We're fully aware that it's trivial >> to cheat on this poll; that's life. >> >> As of right now, Quibble leads with Hextet being a close second. All >> other options got significantly less votes. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> >> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming >> [2] http://doodle.com/5q9gfvk4qe6zmzc6 > >