[171635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu May 8 03:25:27 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
In-Reply-To: <m/vs3GV6894nT70Cbzz2MvrYalI@R6+CFZQ3w24cS9wlnBBSNDkcdZI>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:25:22 -0700
To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog@grid.kiae.ru>
Cc: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 7, 2014, at 12:36 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea+nanog@grid.kiae.ru> =
wrote:
> VRRP/HSRP comes from Cisco (well, VRRP is RFC'ed for some time, but
> its origin is Cisco too),=20
I=92m sorry, but this is 100% incorrect. =20
HSRP comes from Cisco, but Cisco originally decided to not release the =
protocol to the IETF. [Stupid play on their part, but water under the =
bridge.] The IETF, realizing that this was useful technology, designed =
VRRP as a competitor to HSRP. Once that was well on its way to =
standardization, Cisco realized it missed the boat and finally publicly =
documented HSRP.
Please get your facts straight.
Tony
