Alan Frayer wrote in a message to Frank Ramsey:
-> I believe I need to clear up a few things.  802.2 is the industry
-> standard. 802.3 is Novell's.
 AF> Well, actually, to be technical about it, 802.3 is also an
 AF> IEEE standard, but it refers to communication at the
 AF> DataLink layer, where 802.2 refers to the Physical and
 AF> DataLink layers. 802.3 can't be implemented by itself; it
 AF> needs a Physical layer protocol (such as 802.2 or 802.5) to
 AF> work with it. 
You have this backwards.  IEEE 802.2 is the logical link control (frame 
organization) standard, and it applies above Ethernet, Token Ring, and other 
IEEE standard frame-based physical protocols.  IEEE 802.3 is the physical 
Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.4 is the physical Token Bus standard, and IEEE 
802.5 is the physical Token Ring standard.
 AF> None of this is to be confused with Novell's ETHERNET_802.2
 AF> or ETHERNET_802.3 protocol types...
Novell's "Ethernet 802.2" is compliant with IEEE 802.2.  However, Novell's 
"Ethernet 802.3" is simply dumping data onto a raw frame with no LLC 
rotocol.
 
-- Mike
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