Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months agoThere kinda is IANA . They assign addresses to regional registraties like RIPE, APNIC, LANIC who in turn assign addresses to ISPs and large corporations.
dhork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They assign ip addresses, they don’t assign hardware addresses. The closest thing to a hardware address is a MAC address.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In that case it is the IEEE who allocate Mac’s to orgs