Register a Bluetooth SIG Company Identifier

[Eric]

And there's also the PEN, useful for DUID-EN, and extending SNMP, LDAP...

OpenWrt's IANA-assigned Private Enterprise Number (PEN) is 39482.
OpenWrt's OUI prefix is 20:05:b6

We ought to put them in the wiki somewhere...

Eric

On Monday, August 10th, 2026 at 13:00, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
> 
>  > Can you elaborate about the pros for the OpenWrt eco-system?
> 
> I have been playing with BT/LE USB dongles on an OpenWrt One, trying to
> get GATT/GAP working without dragging in bluez and dbus using
> ucode-mod-bluetooth. Advertising
> anything of our own needs an ID that only the SIG hands out, same deal
> as the OUI range we registered with the IEEE.
> 
>      John
> 
> On 09.08.26 08:55, Mathias Mahnke wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > * 08.08.26 16:32 John Crispin:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> OpenWrt should register a Bluetooth SIG Company Identifier. It gives
> >> the project its own allocated ID for use in BLE. One-off fee is $1250
> >> at the Adopter tier, paid through SFC, and they'd handle the
> >> registration for us. This doesn't need a full [VOTE]. If nobody
> >> objects in the next three days, the project will ask SFC to go ahead.
> >
> > many thanks for bringing this registration process here into
> > attention. Can you elaborate about the pros for the OpenWrt eco-system?
> >
> > If found some reference docs:
> > <https://support.bluetooth.com/hc/en-us/articles/360062030092-Requesting-Assigned-Numbers>
> >
> > <https://support.bluetooth.com/hc/en-us/articles/19287261092109-Company-ID-Questions>
> >
> >
> > Should we use it for the OpenWrt hardware or is this an solution for
> > the software stack itself (running on all owrt supported HW)?
> >
> > And: No objections here from my end. Just a request for information.
> >
> > Best,
> > -mathias
> >
> >
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