it seems to have been uncommon until recently for internet protocols to come from vendors Sorry, that's been going on for quite a while now. Cases in point: ht

it seems to have been uncommon until recently for internet protocols to come from vendors Sorry, that's been going on for quite a while now. Cases in point: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3768 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3768 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5077 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2637 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2637 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2281 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2281 (these are just examples, there are many more citing Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, Google, etc.)