Ieee8021XMkaKeyServerPriority
This textual convention indicates a Key Server priority information. Each MKA participant encodes a Key Server Priority, an 8-bit integer, in each MKPDU. Each participant selects the live participant advertising the highest priority as its Key Server provided that participant has not selected another as its Key Server or is unwilling to act as the Key Server. If a Key Server cannot be selected SAKs are not distributed. In the event of a tie for highest priority Key Server, the member with the highest priority SCI is chosen. For consistency with other uses of the SCI's MAC Address component as a priority, numerically lower values of the Key Server Priority and SCI are accorded the highest priority. The Table 9-2 contains recommendations for the use of priority values for various system roles. Participants that will never act as a Key Server should advertise priority 0xFF.