Re: "Proprietary" internetworking protocols (was RE: The future will be easy to use )

Pete Loshin writes:

I was simply observing that Perry's comment:

"...an internetworking protocol [e.g. SKIP] used by only one vendor gets nowhere."

is not necessarily true, and pointed to SSL and NFS as counter-examples.

I disagree. First of all, NFS was not competing with other widely available standards. Second of all, other vendors are committed to developing the other standard. What good will it be to run SKIP when your Cisco router wants to talk to you with something else? Perry