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[Mark Collier <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Monty mentioned this to me as well, and asked if its a cost the foundation could pick up (should we all decide its the right thing to do). 

I'm going to look into this question parallel while the discussion plays out here. 



On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Vinay Bannai <vbannai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was talking to Nachi and Gary during the Quantum design session about the need to have a proper MAC OUI allocation scheme for Openstack development folks. They suggested that I send it out for wider discussion on the mailing list. 
> 
> It turns out that it would be useful for the Openstack foundation to apply for a MAC OUI from IEEE that can be used for development purposes and testing. This way we don't unwittingly use someone else MAC allocation. Here are the details 
> 
> http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/index.html
> 
> The cost to get a OUI allocation is around $2000 dollars. Remember if we use random MAC OUI,  the actual owners can assert their legal claim on the MAC address in the event of a conflict now that we have support for more sophisticated tunnels that allow connections from public and private clouds. 
> 
> Comments welcome. 
> 
> Vinay
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