> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi....@nanog.org Fri Nov 19 11:05:33 > 2010 > Subject: Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming > From: Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:58:45 -0800 > To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailingl...@gmail.com> > Cc: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org > > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote: > > > >> problem is, its not alwas ggoig to be two bytes... > > > > It's always two bytes, but people may choose to omit them. That is a > > social, not a (purely) technical, syntax, though. > > It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do > 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.
I suppose one could call the explicitly-present fields 'bi-bytes', and the compressed-out sequence the 'bye-bytes'.
