Until then it is the users that need to do more home work to ensure the compatibility and compliance instead of the standards bodies and vendors who support them.
Sometime standards lead, while other times they follow.
I am thankful for all the work they do to develop standards and eventually, if the demand is there, they will catch up with most of the features. Hi Mike, Many thanks for the insight. More insight on this would be very grateful. There would have been a serious problem with backward compatibility with other than 10 GbE equipment if we had included support in 802.3ae. Since jumbo frames would have to have been standardized throughout 802.3 it was declared outside the scope of 802.3ae.