On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:34:53PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Those guys were smooking good shit while writing the abstract. > 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) > Nobody will switch away from BGP anytime soon. That comment came from the time where OSI was the next big thing that will replace IP. Now OSI is dead and so nobody is thinking about moving away from BGP. > 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? > IDRP is dead it was burried a long time ago. > 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 :-) > You should probably do some additional reasearch before asking such questions. While google finds nothing that useful for IDRP it has tons of hits for BGP. -- :wq Claudio
