[ih] Exterior Gateway Protocol

[Joseph Touch]

> On Sep 2, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Guy Almes via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> ...
>  As Vint just reminded me, not only was the variable length AS path an unusual characteristic, but BGP's use of TCP was quite controversial. But, in addition to other advantages, the use of TCP made possible several early implementations.

Can you tell us more about what part of BGP’s use of TCP was controversial at the time?

I.e., other than the error of linking “this path is up” inside BGP to “TCP is stable over that path”, a decision that required multiple fixes to address (MD5, TCP-AO, RST rejection, and route dampening).

Joe