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Proprietary refers to property: things that are owned by individuals or businesses. People talk about proprietary drugs, proprietary software, and other things that can only be made and sold by those who discovered or created them. A proprietary claim is usually protected by trademark or copyright. When you say you have a proprietary right to something you're saying to everyone else: "Hands off! This is mine."
Two terms are often used in the networking industry when describing networking protocols.
Proprietary Protocol
Standard Protocol
The main difference between Proprietary Protocol and Standard Protocol is that Proprietary protocols are often developed by a single vendor to use in their products. But, standard protocols are published open standards, which any vendor can use in their products.
Proprietary Protocol
Proprietary protocols are usually developed by a single company for the devices (or Operating systems) which they manufacture. AppleTalk is a proprietary network protocol developed by Apple Inc. AppleTalk protocol is an excellent protocol and AppleTalk protocol works well in network environments made of Apple devices. But other Operating System software vendors may not support the AppleTalk protocol. Proprietary protocols will not scale well in network environments consisting of multi-vendor Operating System software products or network devices.
Standard Protocol
Standard protocols are agreed upon and accepted by the whole computing industry. Standard protocols are not vendor-specific. Standard protocols are often developed by a collaborative effort of experts from different organizations.
Examples of standard protocols are IP, TCP, UDP, etc. RFC (Request for Comments) is an IETF platform to develop Standard Protocols.
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