From: Pat Thaler <pat@hprnd.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: REVISION TO SDE
To: Floyd_Backes@3mail.3Com.COM (Floyd Backes/HQ/3Com)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:31:37 PST
Cc: asayed@fox.nstn.ca, p8021@nic.hep.net, mmcneali@cisco.com,
        alonge_ken@po.gis.prc.com

Floyd,

Apparently, some participants thought a consensus was reached.  The nature
of the discussion in the Exec Committee was not on "technical issues
regarding packet formats."

My recollection of the Exec Committee discussion was
  Ken opened discussion saying it seemed to make sense to get a modification
  of 802.10 underway quickly (reasoning along the lines of what was in the
  message from Cisco).

  People from 802.1 said this is premature.  That it was not yet clear
  that that would be the direction (or part of the direction).

  The consensus was that 802.10 should wait and give 802.1 time to settle
  on a direction.

802.0 is the appropriate place for a checks and balances on the 
coordination between groups to occur.  It is a reasonable place for
a chair of a group to clarify the current level of decision or
consensus in his/her group and clarify a misunderstanding of same.
Ideally that shouldn't need to happen to often.

Pat