SPC-2 Normative reference
Peter Johansson
PJohansson at acm.org
Fri Jul 13 14:14:09 PDT 2001
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At 03:27 PM 7/13/2001, Ralph Weber wrote:
>ANSI/IEEE 394-1995 is the EUI reference used in the published SPC standard.
>
>This says that in 1997 it was a published ANSI standard. If it no longer
>is any catalogs, then it must have been withdrawn.
I think it's possible that the error may go back as far as SPC. I've tried
searching the IEEE historical database, and the only entry that surfaces is
as follows:
Designation: 394
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques
Status: Withdrawn Standard. No longer endorsed by the IEEE. Available for
purchase as archive document from Global Engineering, (800) 854-7179.
Global Engineering has no knowledge of any IEEE Std 394.
My opinion? I doubt that the Microwave Theory and Techniques society
specified EUI-64! On the other hand, I think the coincidence of "394-1995"
and "1394-1995" is to strong to be overlooked---particularly since IEEE Std
1394-1995 does define EUI-64 and is, to the best of my knowledge, the first
IEEE standard to do so. I am unaware of any IEEE standard devoted solely to
the EUI-64. There is a tutorial at
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/EUI64.html; perhaps it
would be useful to cite this in SPC-2?
In any case, the normative reference to ANSI/IEEE 394:1995 in SPC-2 is
erroneous and should either be deleted or replaced. This seems an opportune
time to do so ...
Regards,
Peter Johansson
Congruent Software, Inc.
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Berkeley, CA 94707
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PJohansson at ACM.org
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