On 07/08/2010 08:43 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> 
> If you want to follow the PMM specification then your use of PMM handles has 
> to 
> follow that specification.  You either get your own vendor ID, or you follow 
> the rules set down by the vendor who owns the ID you are using.  As long as 
> you don't introduce changes that break compatibility with the officially-
> assigned usage then you're welcome to keep using the existing ID in gPXE.
> 

For what it's worth, Microsoft (which is the current maintainer of this
registry) does hand out vendor IDs for free, unlike e.g. IEEE, or the
PCI and USB consortia.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/pnp/pnpid.mspx

I notice, for example, that GPX is not taken.

        -hpa
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