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Btw, I doubt anyone pay attention to the IS-IS and OSPF feature differences when choose IGP protocol, usially this protocols are treated as _EQUAL - IS-IS is more complex to configure, and that's the only real difference for real life_, but pay attention to the vendors (CISCO realised IS-IS later and this realisation was better than OSPF's, IS-IS is not common-vendor protocol, IS-IS allow you to use OSPF for the customer's routing and readvertise OSPF into IS-IS, and so on... On 5 Jan 1999, Tony Li wrote: > Date: 05 Jan 1999 23:03:50 +0000 > From: Tony Li <[email protected]> > To: Henk Smit <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IGP Comparison (Summary of Responses) > > > [email protected] (Henk Smit) writes: > > > > "There were also non-technical considerations. Many people felt that it was > > > better that the IETF have complete control over the OSPF protocol design > > > rather than depend on an ISO committee whose goals, namely to produce a > > > routing protocol for the OSI protocol stack, were somewhat different."(2) > > > > This is all history, and should not be a reason for you to pick one > > protocol over the other. The IETF has become what OSI was (and even > > worse). Right now there are active OSPF *and* IS-IS workgroups. The IETF > > can extend IS-IS as much as is needed. > > > We should also point out that the IETF is now an OSI liason organization > and can make contributions to the ISO process. Further, given the > technical expertise of the folks working in the IETF, the effective death > of CLNP, and the fact that a significant proportion of the systems running > IS-IS are actually doing so to forward IP, any contributions made by the > IETF will be taken very seriously by ISO. > > Regards, > Tony Li > IS-IS WG co-chair > > Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow (+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 239-10-10, N 13729 (pager) (+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax)
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