>IS-IS as deployed on the Internet is an interesting case. It is clearly >open and is not proprietary, but as you point out there is no complete >specification. I don't think we have a term for this combination :-) Yes, we do: "proprietary". It's a jargon term for standards development; looking in a standard English dictionary won't help. It just means "not open". /===============================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. | |===============================================================| |Dave Barry for President! He'll Keep Dan Quayle. (OK, it's old)| \===============================================================/