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diff --git a/sys/net/ieee_oui.h b/sys/net/ieee_oui.h
--- a/sys/net/ieee_oui.h
+++ b/sys/net/ieee_oui.h
@@ -30,18 +30,21 @@
*
*/
-/* Organizationally Unique Identifier assigned by IEEE 14 Nov 2013 */
+/*
+ * The Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) was assigned by IEEE on
+ * 14 Nov 2013. The OUI registration is managed by the FreeBSD Foundation.
+ */
#define OUI_FREEBSD_BASE 0x589cfc000000
#define OUI_FREEBSD(nic) (OUI_FREEBSD_BASE | (nic))
-/*
+/*
* OUIs are most often used to uniquely identify network interfaces
* and occupy the first 3 bytes of both destination and source MAC
* addresses. The following allocations exist so that various
* software systems associated with FreeBSD can have unique IDs in the
* absence of hardware. The use of OUIs for this purpose is not fully
* fleshed out but is now in common use in virtualization technology.
- *
+ *
* Allocations from this range are expected to be made using COMMON
* SENSE by developers. Do NOT take a large range just because
* they're currently wide open. Take the smallest useful range for
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@
*
* In the event of a conflict arbitration of allocation in this file
* is subject to core@ approval.
- *
+ *
* Applications are differentiated based on the high order bit(s) of
* the remaining three bytes. Our first allocation has all 0s, the
* next allocation has the highest bit set. Allocating in this way
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