On Wednesday 12 April 2006 23:04, Siju George wrote: > 1) Will BGP get obsolete soon? if so in what time frame?
No, obsoleting BGP would require major changes to the internet infrastructure that would probably be both timeconsuming and errorprone. The RFC you quoted is dated 1996 and 10 years later BGP is nowhere near being obsolete. No doubt it will be obsolete one day but that day wont happen anytime soon > 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? I'd guess because noone is using IDRP. --- Lars Hansson
