tl;dr - curly braces are used to disambiguate, quotes are used to form a "single word".
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2419566/best-way-to-use-multiple-ssh-private-keys-on-one-client
http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5057/what-is-the-actual-size-of-an-ethernet-mtu http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3928766/how-big-is-an-ip-packet-frame-including-headers