Re: US patent 5473599

[Henning Brauer <hb-nanog () bsws de>]

* 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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