[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[vinton cerf]

yes, Kirk - thanks for that correction, Tony.



On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:54 AM Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li> wrote:

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