Since the poll is a straight yes/no option with no preference, I will express my preference here. While I find the term quibble fun and amusing, I think hextet is a far more useful term because it does not have the overloaded human semantics that come with quibble. I'm sorry to quibble with the majority here, but, in this case, I think we have enough problems with ambiguous terminology in networking and this opportunity to avoid creating one more should not be missed. Owen On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Hi all,
as most of you are aware, there is no definite, canonical name for the two bytes of IPv6 addresses between colons. This forces people to use a description like I just did instead of a single, specific term.
Being highly pedantic Germans, this annoyed quite a few people within the DENOG community. This, in turn, lead to an I-D[1]. If any of you have any additional suggestions, you are more than welcome to share them. Additionally, I want to invite everyone to participate in an informal poll which we created[2]. We're fully aware that it's trivial to cheat on this poll; that's life.
As of right now, Quibble leads with Hextet being a close second. All other options got significantly less votes.
Thanks, Richard
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming [2] http://doodle.com/5q9gfvk4qe6zmzc6