Originally Posted By: sn00p
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.

It isn't quite the same however. If you have an IAB then you're limited to 4096 devices in total. If you have a VID with a tiny PID block you can reuse that as many times as you want.

Sub licensing PIDs would make sense though but there would have to be some incentive not to just buy lots of little blocks if you're a big manufacturer.