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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>,
	Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > :Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
> > :
> > :> Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior
> > :> even on 'simple' networks.  It is effectively an open protocol,
> > :> like BGP.
> > :
> > :Matt, can you clarify what you mean by "open" here?  I know it's
> > :what the "O" in OSPF stands for, but in what way are OSPF and
> > :BGP more open than RIP?
> > :
> > :Jim Shankland
> > :NLynx Systems, Inc.
> > 
> >     You can download the protocol spec without putting forth cash.
> >     I haven't looked at it for a long time so I don't have a URL handy.
> 
> And you didn't know that the RIP spec is even older, and was publicly
> available via an RFC (the same as OSPF?)
> 
> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it
> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP.

Because OSPF stands for 'Open Shortest Path First.'  It has nothing to do
with licensing. :-)

Doug White                               
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