Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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

> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
>
> > 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.
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.
>
> Owen