[Irtf-rr] Presentations from San Diego

David R Oran oran at cisco.com
Wed Aug 11 12:37:50 EDT 2004


My recollection corresponds to Yakov's. both BGP and IDRP were well 
along by the time 1126 came around. There was a lot of parallel work 
during those years, and a lot of cross-fertilization, but I don't think 
1126 played much of a role.

Dave.

On Aug 10, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Yakov Rekhter wrote:

> Avri,
>
> Quoting from draft-irtf-routing-history-01.txt (section 2.1):
>
>    RFC1126 outlined a set of requirements that were to guide the
>    development of BGP.
>
> The above statement is blatantly false. The development of BGP
> was NOT guided by rfc1126, and I know this for a fact, as I am one
> of the co-authors of the BGP spec (starting from rfc1105).
>
> With this in mind I would suggest to replace the above sentence with
> the following:
>
>    The development of BGP happened completely independently of
>    RFC1126. In other words, from the point of view of the development
>    of BGP, RFC1126 is totally irrelevant.
>
> Yakov.
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