[ih] Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[Bob Hinden]

Tony,

My memory matches yours.  That is, BGP was first developed for IP, a new version (IDRP) was created for OSI, and the improvements were later brought back in to BGP.

Bob


On Feb 11, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Tony Li wrote:

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> John,
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>> I believe that you are wrong on the first point.  There was an Inter-Domain Routing Protocol developed in OSI.
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>> From the Acknowledgements section of RFC1771 (BGP-4):
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>> "This updated version of the document is the product of the IETF IDR Working Group with Yakov Rekhter and Tony Li as editors. Certain
>> sections of the document borrowed heavily from IDRP [7], which is the OSI counterpart of BGP. For this credit should be given to the ANSI X3S3.3 group chaired by Lyman Chapin (BBN) and to Charles Kunzinger (IBM Corp.) who was the IDRP editor within that group."
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> With all due respect, BGP was first developed for IP.  Yakov then ported it to OSI, where it became IDRP.  
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>> If memory serves the IETF and ISO versions were developed in parallel by the same people.
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> I would argue that it was closer to sequentially with alternating phases, but it was certainly Yakov's doing, with Lyman, Charlie's, and Sue's help on the OSI side, and Kirk and myself on the IP side.  When it came to BGP4, we ended up backporting much of the work on aggregation from IDRP back into BGP.  Thus the quote above.
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> Tony
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