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- RFC 1370:
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- Title: Applicability Statement for OSPF
- Author: Internet Architecture Board
- Mailbox: Lyman@BBN.COM
- Pages: 2
- Characters: 4,303
- Updates/Obsoletes: none
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- Users and vendors have expressed a strong need for IP routers from
- different vendors that can interoperate using a common Interior
- Gateway Protocol (IGP). There is therefore an urgent requirement for
- a high-functionality non-proprietary 'open' IGP that will be
- ubiquitously available from all IP router vendors.
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- The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol was developed by
- the IETF to fill this need. This Applicability Statement specifies
- the circumstances under which OSPF must be implemented by router
- vendors. The history of OSPF development and the reasoning behind
- this Applicability Statement will be found in RFC 1371.
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- This Applicability Statement places a requirement on vendors claiming
- conformance to this standard, in order to assure that users will have
- the option of deploying OSPF when they need a multivendor,
- interoperable IGP in their environment. Users are of course free to
- use whatever routing protocol best meets their requirements.
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- This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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- This memo is an IAB standards track Applicability Statement for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB
- Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status
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