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 ;)