Daniel Stickney wrote: > Hello all, > > I am searching for an authoritative answer to my question on IPv6 > terminology. I hope this is an appropriate list to ask on, and if it is > not I sincerely apologize. So far in my searching I have mostly been > finding inconsistency, confusion and guessing. I would like to know if > there is an official term for the colon separated 16-bit groups in an > IPv6 address. I'm asking here because I believe an answer from members > of the IETF is as official as it gets. [..] QUAD That is nothing "official", but that is how I tend to call it. "An IPv6 address contains 8 quads". There are 4 (quad) nibbles (4 bits) making up the 16-bit groups, 8 of which make 128bits. I don't recall where I got that from, but then again over the years I probably have read way too much IPv6 material. Possibly derived from the quad-A (AAAA) record. googling a bit, it seems I am not the only person doing that: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2008-08/ipv6addr.pl Geoff, where did you get this from? :) (As I would not be surprised that I picked it up in one of his many interesting publications ;) Greets, Jeroen
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