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Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming


From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:21:30 +0100

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 17:58, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do
have byte sizes other than 8 bits

Vice versa. It's always two octects, but on some systems it may not be
two bytes.


, although few of them are likely to have
IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point.

Agreed.


We can revisit this once we all own a few portable quantum computers, though :)

Richard


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