Re: Introducing draft-6man-addresspartnaming

[Tim Chown <[e-mail]>]

On 7 Apr 2011, at 21:07, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> 
> Anyway, after a long time of gathering feedback, we have boiled down
> the options to hextet and quibble. quibble remains in there mostly for
> historic reasons and to gather additional feedback. I do not think
> suggesting two separate terms is useful in the least and we hope to
> get input on this. The main problem with it is that quibble is
> overloaded in English and in a negative way. My money is on consensus
> evolving to drop it in -01.
> 
> The second question on my mind is if using MUST for hextet is
> appropriate. Using SHOULD is fine as well though I personally think
> MUST is better to avoid any and all potential confusion.

Maybe hextet will grow on me.   I'll start using it and see what funny looks or comments I get :)

I also wouldn't object to people saying that an IPv6 address consists of eight hexadecimal quads (given quad is used elsewhere for groups of 4 things).

I would say SHOULD though not MUST.   If it catches on, people will just use it.

Tim