On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:48:03 EDT, John Stracke
<jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com> said:
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".
No, the problem with IS-IS is that the spec *IS* 100% open, including the
non-existent parts. As a literary analogy, if Don Knuth were to place his
5-volume set into the public domain, you'd still have a hard time implementing
the algorithms in volume 5....