[e2e] use of MAC addresses

[Mikael.Latvala@nokia.com]

At least when looking at the public OUI listing
(http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt) one could come to a
conclusion that there is no need to start working on MACv2 in the near
future. But then again this kind of a statement could be on par with
"64KB should be enough" declaration.

Has anybody seen a better estimate on the consumption of MAC addresses?

/Mikael
 
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>48-bits was chosen by the Xerox-DEC-Intel group as a 
>compromise.  Most of us researchers were convinced that 64 
>bits would have been more easily allocated.
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