[171254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Thu Apr 24 08:18:15 2014
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:17:34 +0200
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAF4+nEF_bYJtemtMPQO+Qq3u4fckZaZx+i99XMjPq9TvFcZBdA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> [2014-04-23 21:46]:
> The process for applying
> for MAC addresses under the IANA OUI was regularized in RFC 5342,
> since updated to and replaced by RFC 7042. See
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7042.txt. Perhaps you were trying
> before RFC 5342?
very possible.
As I have said, I don't have to deal with IETF/IANA/IEEE often - we
prefer to implement standards by far. I wasn't the one doing it for
carp. We're talking about sth that happened 10 years ago. We ran
against walls trying to get a multicast addr, and a protocol number for
pfsync. Also as said before, the mac addr bit has pbly just been
forgotten.
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