At 23:58 14.12.99 -0800, Keith McCloghrie wrote:
> > Is CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) an IETF draft or RFC?
>
>No, but several years ago, we submitted a subset of CDP (which we
>called PDP) as an Internet-Draft to the IETF's Physical Topology MIB
>Working Group. It was accepted as a WG document, with a number of
>changes, but the WG lost interest in it more than a year ago (the
>Internet-Draft has since expired). The WG recently decided to go
>forward with just a MIB, abandoning the attempt to standardise a
>protocol.
It might be mentioned that the reason the WG lost interest was that someone
had a patent that might cover any exercise of the protocol, and that most
of the participants felt that the added value of implementing the protocol
wouldn't pay for the work of getting a patent license.
That's life.
Harald A
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
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