Something that has particularly annoyed me, we have our own VID but spending $2k on a number is just a tad outrageous, now if somebody at the USB organisation went and looked at the the mechanism that the IEEE use for MAC addresses then it would be a far more pleasant purchasing experience.
You still have to
pay the IEEE for an
OUI or
IAB. It is just cheaper if you're not going to be making many devices as an IAB is 1/3 the price of an OUI.
Yes, I'm aware of that, but you can purchase MAC addresses in much smaller blocks for a much smaller fee, what a
brilliant idea.
How many companies who purchase a VID actually use all 65535 PID's available to them? How many just use a handful, say up to 32?
Sub licensing blocks of PID's would be a
good thing for everybody.
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