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Conflation of I/G with U/L bits in title on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
@Zac67  "The section also talks about GROUP vs INDIVIDUAL addresses"

Yes it does, however, that is the I/G bit which denotes transmission mode, (i.e. unicast or multicast), you are conflating this with the U/L bit which denotes administration

To refer to a MAC address as 'group administered' is non-sensical, administration is either local or universal

In it's current form the title is technically incorrect as the subject of the sentence is administration then it should say "Ranges of universally and locally administered addresses"

If you wish to also speak about the I/G bit in the title then you would need to re-write it entirely, but please do not conflate I/G with U/L in the title, this error led to a defective requirement being written within my organization where somebody referred to this page

IMO it is not necessary to mention the I/G bit in the title as it is primarily the administration mode that is denoted by the most significant bit and is generally referred to in accepted nomenclature TestPest (talk) 09:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * As it is, the section heading isn't technically incorrect – but it may be ambiguous, that I grant you. Yet it takes a very cursory reader to actually mistake one for the other since both bits are extensively covered in the preceding sections. The current heading is trying to refer to the special cases group or locally administered addresses in contrast to the (in perception) more common individual and universally administered addresses. Changing the heading to "Ranges of universally and locally administered addresses" would be even less correct as the section also discusses group vs individual addressing. So, a correct heading would be "Ranges of group vs individual and locally vs universally administered addresses". Do we really need that? If you need to continue this discussion please let's move to Talk:MAC address where this belongs. (And btw, the U/L bit is the 2nd least significant bit in the first octet.) --Zac67 (talk) 15:07, 18 July 2022 (UTC)