On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:35:47 CDT, Jordan Bettis <jordanb at hafd.org> said: > The IETF gave IPv6 a 8-byte address because they knew we'd all be using > computers with 128bit ints by the time it got implemented. Hmm.. you must be on one of those computers that made old RFC's use the term 'octets' rather than 'bytes'....