Cover Page Using a Light Image IEEE Registration Authority Virtualization study Glenn Parsons, RAC Chair June 2011 RAC Members Glenn Parsons, Chair Geoff Thompson, (LMSC prime) IEEE 802 Clint Chaplin, (LMSC alternate) IEEE 802 Bob Davis, (MSC prime) Leonard Tsai, (MSC alternate) Tom Kurihara, (VTS / ITS prime) IEEE 1609 Geoffrey Garner , (I&M prime) IEEE 1588 Gary Robinson, ex-officio (CS SAB) Staff – Angela Thomas, RAC Secretary – Carmen Hernandez, Registrar 2 Current RAC Policy on virtualization • A "prime directive" of the RAC is to not run out of global MAC48 addresses for 100 years – that is driving our study of machine virtualization as it has the potential to increase MAC48 address usage dramatically. • Only one (or at most a few) global MAC48 addresses can be assigned to a single hardware device – This is apparently being violated by existing VM vendors These and some other RAC policies are not publicly available Is this a problem?