RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

["George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>]

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00,  <bmanning () 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.
>
>
> 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"?