[44net] callsign in MAC encoding - was Re: IPv6 adoption (was: address sale)

Hello, ea4gpz's proposal for encoding callsigns in EUI-48 may be used for being part of an IPv6 address. But if you like to use it at MAC layer, you get problems: it does not honor the reserved flags. When we started with HAMNET here, we were unsure if the law insists in seeing the callsign in each transmission (like the way AX.25 was specified). For this reason, in the year 2009 we designed a callsign in mac encoding for the ethernet: http://db0fhn.efi.fh-nuernberg.de/doku.php?id=projects:wlan:proposal/ see also "Tools" at bottom: call2mac Fortunately, the german Bundesnetzagentur did not insist in a mac layer encoding of callsigns. But maybe this work could solve problems in other parts of the world. vy 73, - Thomas dl9sau