On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:46, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> IBTA GUIDs are EUI-64. The only issue I recall was whether
>     Hal> the polarity of the U/G bit was consistent with IEEE. This
>     Hal> was updated at IBA 1.2. It now says "manufacturer assigns
>     Hal> EUI-64 with global scope set. May also assign additional
>     Hal> EUI-64 with local scope."
> 
> Uh-oh -- none of the HCAs I have access to have the universal bit set
> in their port GUIDs.

That's the old way (where old < IBA 1.2).

I can dig out more emails on this and any recommendations.

In the older versions of IBA, the bit was inverted due to some language
ambiguity. It was supposed to be global.

I would think we want to be compliant with the IBA 1.2 definition but
if there are practical matters with this...

-- Hal

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