==>Dear vendors: ==> ==> GIVE A KNOB TO DO THIS, ACROSS THE BOARD, IN YOUR GEAR.

It's a requirement per the RFC: [snip]

You, I and many->most of the folks here know it, but as your paper notes that Bay isn't following 1812 yet, I'm noting Ascend doesn't (or isn't for all their platforms/wasn't comprehending when we were trying to get good answers from them). I don't know if the FORE code that does the Right Thing is in production yet. Joe