[ih] Exterior Gateway Protocol

[vinton cerf]

NSFNET'S rapid growth induced the need for something more flexible than
EGP. As I recall, Hans-Werner Braun (among others) spearheaded the effort.

vint


On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:39 AM Grant Taylor via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 9/2/20 7:55 AM, Dan York via Internet-history wrote:
> > Grant,
>
> Hi,
>
> > It also needs more explanation that EGP was replaced by BGP. (The
> > current sentence there says “essentially replaced” and is a bit
> > vague with no references.)
>
> Hum.
>
> > If any of you all here know of any RFCs that explicitly indicate
> > EGP was replaced/obsoleted, or if you know of any journal articles,
> > academic papers, historical documents, etc., that could be useful,
> > I would be glad to update the article a bit. Or if you can point me
> > to any info about the creation of EGP (there’s a line that needs a
> > source). Or any other info you think would be useful in this Wikipedia
> > article, that would be great.
>
> I found a some information about EGP in and around the gated routing
> daemon.  I wonder if there might be some more information that could
> help you.
>
> > (Note that for info to appear in the English version of
> > Wikipedia, it needs to be backed up by a “reliable source” -
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources - which
> > includes journal articles, academic papers, news articles, RFCs, etc.)
>
> I wonder if you can find any graphs on the number of Internet
> connections using BGP.  If similar ever existed for EGP, you can
> probably compare / contrast the two.
>
> I also think that the lack of contemporary EGP implementations is
> evidence of BGP's replacement of EGP.  As is the fact that BGP supports
> things that EGP does not.  Things which are used all over the Internet,
> e.g. multipath.
>
>
>
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