  We respond to S.-K. Yip's criticism of our work on the classification of
spinor condensates. We explain why his criticism is unfounded, emphasizing that
the phases he mentions have been addressed in our paper cond-mat/0611230. To
provide a constructive aspect to this response, we use it as an opportunity to
show how our classification scheme makes explicit not only spin rotations which
leave spinor states invariant, but also the phase factors which need to
accompany them.
