Re: Reopening jumbo frames in IS-IS

[sob at harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)]

Tony reported:
> Sorry, but I was explicitly told to stop work.

Tony is quite correct

Erik then opined:
> My recollection is that the feedback from IEEE 802 was that we shouldn't 
> touch non-standard things like jumbo-frames, and as a result nothing 
> more was done in this area.
> 
> Perhaps we asked a suboptimal question back then; whether IEEE 802 liked 
> the idea of us doing something for jumboframes and IS-IS. Had we instead 
> asked them whether they were going to specify how jumboframes work with 
> IS-IS, we would probably have received a different answer.

my discussions with the IEEE at that time mentioned IS-IS but that 
was not a factor in the exchange - the IEEE said flatly that 
	1/ jumbo frames for Ethernet were not gonna happen in the IEEE
	2/ they did not want the IETF to make a standard that
	   defined or assumed jumbo frames on Ethernet

re: Erik's suggested question - in effect they did answer that question
'no - they were not going to specify how jumboframes work at all
(nevermind with IS-IS) and please do not that that answer to mean that
the IETF should do so'

Scott