Thank you for all the information you provided. I am confident that the Setco and the vendors will be successful in achieving a high degree of interoperability and that you are working at this as hard as possible. In particular, I do not share the opinion of the person quoted in the article I posted, nor that which I infer to be the opinion of the author. However, I started by asking a simple, narrow technical question, which you have not answered.
Technical specifications come in different flavors.
The Ethernet spec is an example of one that is complete enough to implement from. IMHO, IETF specs come in both flavors. I realize that I could analyze the specs and find out the answer for myself, but given the presence on the list of a variety of experts on the subject I thought I would save time and just ask. To try to be as specific as possible, let me formulate the question this way. If the answer is no, could you characterize the sort of additional information required.