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Dear A-List Members, After few years of war, some manufacturers start to claim their product bla-bla-bla is the de-facto open standard, the terminator of all other automation fieldbuses/networks. Besides the argument that whether one single Ethernet can be the everything for all automation applications and network hierarchy, I am wondering the current status of the Industrial Ethernet: how many standards published? up to which layer? how about the acceptance of users (in US and EU)? Anybody can give me a vender-neutral overall picture of IE? Best Regards, Alvin