[1] In 2011 an Internet Draft explored various alternatives for hextet such as quibble, short for "quad nibble".
[2] In response to this draft, author Trefor Davies suggested the use of the word chomp because it is in line with the current denominations bit, nibble, byte.
However, because it is harder to pronounce, the short form hextet is used—in analogy to how hex is commonly used as an abbreviation for hexadecimal in computing.
This usage of hex to mean 16 is also in line with the similar IEEE 1754 term hexlet indicating 16 octets.
[8] Cisco sources generally[citation needed] use the term quartet as does IPv6.com,[9] a reference either to the four digit grouping or to the fact that it represents four nibbles; however, this term is also used by some to refer to a four-bit aggregation.