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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:06:38 -0400
From:      "Jonathan T. Looney" <jtl@freebsd.org>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r297358 - head/sys/net
Message-ID:  <FC1D525B-7683-4E24-BD84-B9F35E219A52@juniper.net>
In-Reply-To: <752095E3-DF2D-425E-BA80-B1CF60E638CF@freebsd.org>
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On 3/28/16, 7:05 PM, "George Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote:

>On 28 Mar 2016, at 14:36, Jonathan T. Looney wrote:
>
>>The IEEE registry shows this Ethertype as being allocated to Wind
>> River Systems. Do we know that Wind River Systems has further 
>> allocated that to be used for network conformance testing? If not, I 
>> fear we could end up causing problems down the road.
>
>Guess who worked at Wind River and got that allocated :-)
>
>I am going to dig through my old mail archives from WR days and get the 
>IEEE to move it, since, clearly, not one kept the thing up after I left. 
>  That address is over a decade out of date, and Wind River no longer 
>exists, as Intel bought them several years ago.

Thanks for answering my question!

I think its a great idea that *someone* allocated this. Its too bad IEEE didn't do it themselves, but I'm glad someone did.

Jonathan




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