Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!xerox.arpa!Kluger.osbunorth From: Kluger.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: 802.2 SAP's Message-ID: <851029-163751-1872@Xerox> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 19:36:14 EST Article-I.D.: Xerox.851029-163751-1872 Posted: Tue Oct 29 19:36:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:21:33 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 Approved: tcp-ip@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Don't Panic! There are contributions before the 802.x committees which will fix the problem of only 64 SAPs. The best contribution fixes the problem by proposing that one of the reserved 64 saps serve as an escape, opening up another field of 40 bits which is then used to demultiplex protocols. (It'll work very well.) The 802.1 contribution is by Tony Lauckand Arthur Harvey of DEC. The best would be for you all to go to the next meeting and support the proposal (if you agree with it). For more information, you can contact the proposal's authors. =====>>>> But have an influence, go to the IEEE 802 Meetings !!!! It is ONLY by attending the meetings that the work can be influenced. (The reason we got into this pickle in the first place is because not enough people with internetting experience have attended the meetings in the past.) The next meeting is November 11-15, '85 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Buckhead. Registration fee is $100 at the meeting. Regards, Larry Kluger Team Leader for Internet Services Xerox Palo Alto