Your knowledge of the evolution of the Border Gateway Protocol is seriously lacking. To be sure, cisco engineers
assisted in its development and with its evolution, in concert with many others who comprised the BGP Working Group
of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the IETF. You are free to read the pertinent RFCs' and look at the authors.
BGP1 thru BGP4, the current version. RFCs 1105, 1163, 1267.
Yes, interdomain routing in todays internet is complex--and the software to do it correctly is complex. Just because it is complex is not any bar for anyone to write BGP software, BGP4 is current, and use it. Of course, that software must interoperate with all other BGP4 implementations by others, and, there are independant, academic, interoperability laboratories that do so.
For you to claim that it is cisco proprietary is sheer horsepucky, and it only amplifies your bias. |
