From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Nov 19 11:05:33 2010 Subject: Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:58:45 -0800 To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org

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

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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:00, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:

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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.

I suppose one could call the explicitly-present fields 'bi-bytes', and the compressed-out sequence the 'bye-bytes'.