On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 08:15:16AM -0800, Joe Touch allegedly wrote: > Eric Rosen wrote: > >IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry > >ethernet data and control frames over IP networks. > > They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to > carry ethernet over another protocol and keep current ethernet > correctness.
To be more specific, if anything the IEEE would want to do to carry Ethernet over IP would require modifications to protocols which the IETF feels protective about, the work should be done under the auspices of the IETF. They should give us requirements -- we know our protocols better than they do.
