Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Nov 19 16:58:45 UTC 2010


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

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00,  <bmanning at 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.

Owen





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