Re: Vendor Private Extension

[Curtis Villamizar <[e-mail]>]

> Vendors create differences between their products and the
> competition in order to give customers a reason to choose
> their product over the competition's product.  The vendor
> private extension must express such differences.  It
> cannot possible be standard across all the vendor products.
> 
> Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami


I thought this mentality died at least a decade ago when users began
in large number avoiding the purchase of products that didn't
interoperate with other vendor's products.

I'd like to point out that there is no provision in any routing
protocol to date for "vendor proprietary extensions".  The only thing
resembling a vendor proprietary extensions is an enterprise MIB.
There are no vendor proprietary IP options, TCP options, etc.

I think a field for vendor proprietary extensions should not even
appear in NHRP at all.  The protocol should be extensible, but
extensions added with new standard attributes.  If some vendor wants
to be "better" they can try to build a faster or more stable product
and be among the first to implement extensions brought forward in the
standards process.

Curtis