Hi-- what is OIE exactly and how it is related to IOS and RFC
I really don't know about "OIE" and that is why I inquired.
As for the RFCs (and other standards, ANSI, IEEE, CCITT/ITU
and the like), those are mostly boilerplate, consensus and
openly developed standards--ie. ways of doing things and who does what to whom and why and when. The idea is if
an implementation does those standard things, and everybody
elses implementation does the same, then, everybody CAN
interoperate-- ie. open ip. Not that everybody does
interoperate just because they implemented the standard, but there are neutral interoperability groups that help
mitigate those.
Now, the implementation *methods* ie. the software that does that implementation may be proprietary, or it may not
be. For example, IOS to Cisco, is a strategic resource. Some parts of it, say the implementation of IEEE802.1-d in
its most crudest form, has the C source code as part of the
IEEE standard. Some RFC's have code snippets as well, for
illustration.
So, I ask the question-- What is "OPEN IP"--it seems not to
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