Re: Intra-AS Routing Standards

[Hans-Werner Braun <hwb at merit.edu>]

Stev:

The NSFNET backbone has extensive experience with the ANSI IS-IS
protocol. I heard a statement from IBM before that they would conform 
to the IS-IS document that the IETF IS-IS Working Group is working on.
Given that we would also like to support CLNP sooner or later I assume
that Steve Wolff meant that we can expand the existing almost two years 
of IS-IS experience in the NSFNET backbone towards some experience in
an environment where we could use IS-IS for multiple datagram-style
protocols.

It is true that the NSFNET backbone IS-IS implementation is only a
subset of the full ANSI IS-IS spec. However, please note that the
reason for that was that there was no need for the NSFNET backbone
support itself to implement more than this subset. 

Steve (Wolff), please correct me if I misrepresented what you had in
mind.

	-- Hans-Werner