[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Tony Li]

> On Jul 20, 2021, at 6:49 PM, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> BGP doesn't arrive until 1989 and as I recall, Yakov Rekhter of IBM and Keith Loughead at Cisco wrote RFC 1105 describing it. 

                                                                            

That's Kirk Lougheed.

BGP doesn’t really get deployed until 1992 when EGP is imploding and we’re desperate for something else. A small band of enterprising geeks deploy BGP without due process and when it’s found to work, we flip over to it.

Tony