[21679] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cache-as-cache-can
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Wed Nov 18 12:28:09 1998
From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@adsu.bellsouth.com>
To: "Tony Li" <tli@juniper.net>, "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:39:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <82hfvxajfo.fsf@chimp.juniper.net>
> HSRP is published as an Informational RFC.
>
> However, there is a patent on the protocol, assigned to Cisco.
> To the best
> of my knowledge, Cisco has not granted any licenses to that patent (yet).
>
> The VRRP working group selected the VRRP protocol instead of HSRP to place
> on the standards track, so at this point, it is unlikely that HSRP will
> become a standard (open or otherwise) anytime soon.
.. and it should be pointed out that VRRP is pretty much stalled in the IETF
as well.
Cheers,
Chris
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