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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are concerned about OUI collisions buy your own OUI.  If we end up
with people colliding in an OpenStack OUI, so be it.  Better than causing
grief for our neighbors.  I'd rather be neighborly.

-Matt



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Nachi Ueno wrote:
> > My proposal is the default OUI value should be owned by OpenStack
> > foundation if $2000 isn't concern for OpenStack foundation.
>
> To summarize the discussion so far, it is suggested that the OpenStack
> Foundation could buy a OUI that we'd use as the default value, rather
> than a random one that may be used by someone else. That one would be
> used for development, while all serious deployers are encouraged to get
> their own.
>
> The issue reported with that is that it creates a smaller space for
> collision amongst OpenStack users. Encouraging people to use
> locally-assigned OUI or buy their own might therefore be a better strategy.
>
> More thoughts ?
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>
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