[ih] Exterior Gateway Protocol

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 03-Sep-20 12:47, Tony Li via Internet-history wrote:
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> Namely, it explores every possible loop-free recovery path until all possible paths are known to have failed. Yes, this can be painful, but what can you do short of an oracle?

Was an oracle ever seriously contemplated for the Internet?

SNA sysgen amounted to an oracle, but was of course notorious because the whole network had to be restarted to install a new set of tables.

   Brian