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Subject: Re: Ethernet addresses
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 20:42:25 EDT
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    " Assigning Ethernet addresses. When I left Xerox in March of 1986,
      all 'magic number' assignments were still be handled by Xerox..."
     
Ethernet 48-bit address blocks (IEEE 802 "48-bit Globally/Universal
Assigned Addresses") are now assigned by the IEEE Standards Office
rather than Xerox.    

Contact the IEEE Standards Office, (212) 705-7092, for more information.

John