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RFC 4436 is a Proposed Standard
As noted on the second line of the RFC. Also, while Apple made a contribution they did not invent it since early versions of the draft had no Apple contributors.
Finally, RFC 826 does not indicate that unicast ARP is "illegal". And in any case, no properly implemented TCP/IP stack should fall over upon receiving a unicast ARP packet, although they might silently discard it. The level of brittleness in IOS is unacceptable.