938   Case sensitive in MAC address

Created: 02 Nov 2012

Status: Not Applicable

Part: Part 6 (2009-12; Edition 2)

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Hi,

Why the MAC address values are always using caps letters?
<xs:pattern value="[\d,A-F]{2}\-[\d,A-F]{2}\-[\d,A-F]{2}\-[\d,A-F]{2}\-[\d,A-F]{2}\-[\d,A-F]{2}"/>

even MAC address with small letters are valid.

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