Intra-AS Routing Standards

[gmalkin at proteon.com (Gary Scott Malkin)]

There is a very important point that there wasn't time for me to
make at the open IESG meeting.

We should not be comparing OSPF and dual IS-IS.  Rather, IS-IS for
IP for be examined in it's own right.  Remember, nobody has asked
for a routing protocol which handles IP *and* DECnet; yet, there
are routers which handle both.

As I (and I mean me personally) see it, the natural progression
is for OSPF to become the standard routing protocol for IP (always
assuming that it doesn't barf in the field tests) because it will
be available first.  Vendors will be implementating IS-IS anyway
because they'll need it for their ISO stacks.  After some period
of time, the user community may decide that one protocol is
sufficiently superior another to warrent pressuring vendors to
supply that protocol for both stacks; and eventually, possibly,
as a dual protocol.

Make sense?
Gary