On Mar 16, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Jaap Keuter <[email protected]> wrote:

> We may want to get something like this going for OUI's as well.

I think the current OUI getter code (make-manuf) needs to change anyway - it 
currently gets the 22-bit OUIs and Individual Address Blocks (IABs) from IEEE's 
website, but does not get the OUI-36 listing that's been used since 2007 
(http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui36/oui36.txt).  

IABs and OUI-36 are very similar, but have a different reserved OUI prefix and 
are thus a separate number space.  Technically an IAB is not an "OUI", and can 
only be used for EUI-48 addresses (i.e., 48-bit MAC addresses).  On the other 
hand an OUI-36 can be used for other things: an EUI-64, CDI, and as an extended 
OUI - although in practice my guess is people do the same thing with IABs 
anyway.  The IEEE is considering merging the two into one registry, but they'll 
still have the current numbers/prefixes - for wireshark this just means that 
the URL to get the listings may change.

Also, the IEEE is proposing to create OUI-26, OUI-28, and CompanyID registries.
The details can be read here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ieee-rac-oui-restructuring

-hadriel

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