On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote: > Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC > addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be > reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a > MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I > personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone > did.
Why not IPv6 addresses? Some designated prefix? There are enough addresses in 2^128 that we can all be happy...