[22495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IGP Comparison (Summary of Responses)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Wed Jan 6 07:08:46 1999
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:10:04 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>
To: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
cc: Henk Smit <hsmit@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <82n23xz5ih.fsf@chimp.juniper.net>
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 <tli@juniper.net>
> To: Henk Smit <hsmit@cisco.com>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: IGP Comparison (Summary of Responses)
>
>
> hsmit@cisco.com (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
>
>
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