:> 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, sth...@nethelp.no

    I consider ISIS dead these days, though I'm sure there are people who 
    still swear by it.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <dil...@backplane.com>


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