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RE: Introducing draft-6man-addresspartnaming

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Sat, 09 April 2011 00:32 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:34:32 -0500
Subject: RE: Introducing draft-6man-addresspartnaming
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Hartmann
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 8:10 PM
> To: Scott Brim
> Cc: 6man List
> Subject: Re: Introducing draft-6man-addresspartnaming
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 01:01, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If enough people express support we can make this a BCP
> 
> That would be very welcome indeed.
> 
> 
> >,  but whatever is
> > done here, "the market" will decide on its own. .
> 
> If this poll [1] and the various feedback by operators is a reliable
> metric, the market may have decided for hextet, already. And yes, I
> should have used Condorcet [2] possibly modified for NotA.

I think something is needed, and hextet is probably good-ish.

Anyone considered hexdectet? Easier to say that hexadectet, I think, and far more accurate than hextet!

Quibble? Naw. For one thing, it has negative connotations. Who wants to be quibbling over IPv6 addresses for all time anyway? We have more important things to do? (I think we do?)

Bert

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