On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:10:16PM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: > To be fair to Cisco and maybe I'm way off here. But it seems they do > come out with a way to do things first which then become a standard > that they have to follow. > > ISL/DOT1Q > HSRP/VRRP > etherchannel/LACP
Yes, and then they keep their proprietary implementation instead of phasing it out, and no one migrates to the standard one which leads to vendor lockin.