[c-nsp] EIGRP as industry standard ?

[Andrew Clark]

Might find this document useful, Ge.

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Andrew Clark



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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:47:42 -0500
> From: Ge Moua <moua0100 at umn.edu>
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] EIGRP as industry standard ?
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> It was interesting to see an IETF doc about EIGRP:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-savage-eigrp-00
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> I?m wondering if Cisco may be releasing this to the wider Internet
> community for possible industry standards consideration. While
> technically classified by Cisco as a distance-vector protocol, there are
> hybrid features of EIGRP that makes it attractive over traditional
> link-state IGPs like OSPF & IS-IS (which I'm a big fan of). However,
> what?s not so attractive is the proprietary nature (tied to Cisco) and
> lack of support on other big name vendor equipment. Maybe Cisco is
> looking to change this in the horizon.
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> I'd be interested to know what other ppl way smarter than me thinks.
> Thanks for your feedback.
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> Regards,
> Ge Moua
> Univ of Minn Alumnus
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