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vendor id is 16-bit so should be enough for 65535 of them
by blibble 4y ago
vendor id is 16-bit so should be enough for 65535 of them
- systemvoltage 4y agoYea a bunch of these are reserved. I remember jumping through the whole process when we were designing a usb device. To counter my own point, it takes money and people to run a standards committee and it is important to keep in mind that funding has to come from somewhere. Here are more details of what it takes to run one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22968431/3908009 https://stackoverflow.com/a/22968431/3908009 IMO they should either be funded by gov or by large companies.
- blibble 4y agoyes, $4k/year doesn't seem that bad for a company that's going to be producing a commercial product (and of course if you're just hacking locally you can do whatever you want as it's an open standard)
- lupire 4y agoCan you sublet a vendor id, like a taxi medallion?
- madacol 4y agoMaybe in next versions they should choose 256 bits (or 160, like bitcoin) which would be the hash of a public key, an any vendor that provides a valid signature, can claim that 160 bit vendor ID. No more need for a central authority I'm probably overengineering it, just pointing out it is technically possible
- lttlrck 4y agoThere is no obvious reason why USB couldn't have used used Ethernet MAC vendor Id, aside from politics. Instead there could be a single registry like IANA.