Folks, I've also been around since Baudot days, and am familiar with at
least some of the different sized historic bytes. That's why I think we
should specifically define the meaning in a terminology section.
As opposed to the 9 in 36 mentioned, another of the byte sizes is 6 in 36
and 6 in 60 for the CDC 3000 and 6000 series respectively.
I used octet throughout PPP specifications, to be least confusing to
folks reading ISO, CCITT and IETF documents in parallel.
I use byte in other venues. In any case, the terms should be well
defined, and cognizant of the intended reader.
The problem that I raised was that _both_ byte and octet are used in the
same document. Pick one. Be consistent and readable. Thank you.
WSimpson(_at_)UMich(_dot_)edu
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