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Re: How many standards or protocols...

2002-04-17 08:51:16
At 01:58 PM 4/16/2002 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote:
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 :-)


That condition used to be the norm for Internet specifications, too. It was the motivation behind the initial Interop conferences.

So we probably want to choose the label carefully...

d/


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