IS-IS

• “Intermediate System to Intermediate System”

• Selected in 1987 by ANSI as OSI intradomain routing protocol (CLNP – connectionless network protocol)

  • Based on work by DEC for DECnet/OSI (DECnet Phase V)

• Extensions for IP developed in 1988

  • NSFnet deployed, its IGP based on early ISIS-IP draft

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