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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:18:58 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, chuckr@picnic.mat.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. 
Message-ID:  <24840.925327138@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:03 PDT." <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com> 

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In message <199904281914.MAA08534@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>
>:> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it
>:> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP.
>:
>:Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI
>:IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I
>:believe they are now.)
>:
>:Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
>
>    I consider ISIS dead these days, though I'm sure there are people who 
>    still swear by it.

He, the Danish telecom is spending several millions DKR right now on a 
study for the future strategy of their CMIP based network management,
so I'm sure somebody is running IS-IS somewhere too :-)

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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