AS/NZS 4228:1994

ISO/IEC TR 10735:1993

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Standard group medium
access control addresses
 AS/NZS 4228:1994

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 15 June 1994 and on behalf of the Council of
Standards New Zealand on 9 May 1994. It was published on 19 September 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

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Australian Bankers’ Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Science and Technology, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia
Telecom New Zealand

Review of Standards. To keep abreast of progress in industry, Joint Australian/

New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the
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 AS/NZS 4228:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Standard group medium
access control addresses

First publi shed as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4228:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee
IT/1 on Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC TR 10735:1993, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems—Standard Group MAC Addresses.
This Standard is issued as a Joint Standard under the terms of the Active Cooperation Agreement
between Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand.
The objective of this Standard is to provide users of local area networks with a description of the
binary and illustrative representation of the medium access control addresses as used by LANs
conforming to AS 4802 (ISO/IEC 8802).
This Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are
currently under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor
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difficulties encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be
providing, through the OSI Help Desk, a service to coordinate and disseminate information
concerning difficulties which are identified in using this Standard.
Users of this Standard are advised by Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand, under
arrangements made with ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, that the
number of this Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover
and title pages.
For the purpose of this Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:
(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words
‘this International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.
(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint

or other publication
ISO/IEC
8802 Information technol ogy—Local
and metropolitan networks
8802-5 Part 5: Token ring access method
and physical layer specifications
9542 Information processing systems—
Telecommunications and infor-
mation exchange between sys-
tems—End system to Inter-
mediate system routeing exchange
protocol for use in conjunction
with the Protocol for providing the
connect i onless-mode net work
service (ISO 8473)
Australian/New Zealand Standard
AS
4802 Informat ion processi ng sys-
tems—Local area networks
4802.5 Part 5: Token ring access method
and physical layer specifications
AS/NZS
3651 Information processing systems—
Telecommunications and infor-
mation exchange between sys-
tems—End system to inter-
mediate system routing exchange
protocol for use in conjunction
with the protocol for providing
the connectionless-mode network
service
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ISO/IEC AS
10038 Information t echnology—Tele- 4802 Informat ion processi ng sys-
communications and information tems—Local area networks
exchange bet ween syst ems— 4802.1/Supp.1 Supplement 1: Overview and
Local Area Networks—Media ar ch i t ec t u re — M ed i a ac ce ss
access control (MAC) bridges control bridges
AS/NZS
10039 Information t echnology—Open 4094 Information technology—Open
Systems Interconnection—Local Systems Interconnection—Local
Area Networks—Medium Access area networks—Medium access
Control (MAC) service definition control service definition
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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope 1

2 References 1

3 Abbreviations 2

4 Binary and Illustrative Representation 2

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of LAN MAC Addresses

5 Standard Group MAC Addresses 2

5.1 General 2
5.2 Criteria for assignment of 3
Standard Group MAC Addresses
5.2.1 General considerations 3
5.2.2 Specific considerations 3

6 Standard Group MAC Address 5

assignments
6.1 ISO 10038 MAC Bridge Filtered 5
MAC Group Addresses
6.2 Standard MAC Group Addresses 6
6.3 MAC Group Addresses used in 7
ISO 9542
6.4 Locally Administered MAC Group 8
Addresses used by ISO 8802-5

Annexes
A - Guidelines for requesting a MAC 9
group Address Assignment
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AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD

Information technology—Telecommunications and information

exchange between systems—Standard group medium access
control addresses

1 Scope
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This Technical Report provides:

a) A description of the binary and illustrative representation of ISO/IEC 8802 LAN MAC addresses.

b) A description of the sub-division of the Universally Administered Stand ard Group MAC
Address Block into: ISO/IEC 1003 8 MAC Bridg e Filtered MAC Group Addresses and Stand ard
MAC Group Addresses.

c) The criteria for the manner in which new addresses are approved for entry into this TR.

d) A record of approved assignments from the Standard Group MAC Address Block and a
record of Group MAC Addresses in use in standards which are not part of the Standard
Group MAC Address Block, for example ISO/IEC 9542.

2 References

The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions
of this Technical Report. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards
are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this Technical Report are encouraged to
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards listed below.
Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently valid International Standards.

ISO/IEC 8802-5:1992, Information technology – Local and metropolitan area networks –

Part 5: Token ring access method and physical layer specifications.

ISO/IEC 9542:1988, Information processing systems – Telecommunications and information

exchange between systems – End system to Intermediate system routeing exchange protocol for
use in conjunction with the Protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473).

ISO/IEC 100381) , Information technology – Telecommunications and information exchange

between systems – Local Area Networks – Media access control (MAC) bridges.

ISO/IEC 10039:1991, Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Local Area

Networks – Medium Access Control (MAC) service definition.

1) To be published.

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