Hi, I was trying to get wet with BGP, OpenBGPD, AS nos. etc so that I can Implement them in my network. Going through the print out of RFC 1930.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1930.html I read ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, the current de facto standard for inter-AS routing; see [BGP-4]), and IDRP (The OSI Inter-Domain Routing Protocol, which the Internet is expected to adopt when BGP becomes obsolete; see [IDRP]). It should be noted that the IDRP equivalent of an AS is the RDI, or Routing Domain Identifier. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- under the abstract. It would be very helpful if someone can help me solve the confusion. 1) Will BGP get obsolete soon? if so in what time frame? ( Just wondering if Henning's, Claudio's and Esben's work on OpenBGPD will be of little value in the comming years) 2) Henning used say about Theo motivating hime to write OpenBGPD, so I wonder why Theo did not ask them to write OpenIRDPD instead since the RFC is already predicting that BGP is going to be obsolete. or is it going to take some time for BGP to become obsolete? Again folks this is not a TROLL ( People do mistake me as a troll often here at misc ) Just want to get a little learning on things thats all :-) Thankyou all so much Kind Regards Siju
