IS-IS as deployed on the Internet is an interesting case. It is clearly
open and is not proprietary, but as you point out there is no complete
specification. I don't think we have a term for this combination :-)
Yes, we do: "proprietary". It's a jargon term for standards development;
looking in a standard English dictionary won't help. It just means "not
open".
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