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Vendor ID (OUI) encoding in LDP section 3.6.1.1

  • From: neil.2.harrison@bt.com
  • Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 03:43:54 +0100
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET

Andy, 
 
> >My view on this is that any body who purports to be a 'standards
> >organisation' should not sanction vendor (or other, eg SP) protocol
> >codepoints.
> 
> See Q.2931 (02/95 revision is the one I'm looking at) section 
> 4.5.8 and 
> X.36 (04/95) Annex D for some examples of ITU-T usage of the 
> IEEE OUI for 
> vendor extensions and private protocol identification.
NH=> And therefore the conclusion is?.........you seem to be saying
something like 'if X commits a crime it now gives everyone the right and
also go and commit the same crime'.  I don't care which stds body does
this....it simply is not right in principle IMO.

regards, Neil