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The Two-Napkin Protocol (2015) (computerhistory.org)
57 points by ColinWright on June 2, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> BGP is still integral to an Internet that has grown from 80 thousand hosts in 1989 to over one billion hosts today.

And at the same time, its security hadn't improved much:

https://security.stackexchange.com/q/56069/15648


> It was 1989. Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM were having lunch in a meeting hall cafeteria at an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference.

> They wrote a new routing protocol that became RFC (Request for Comment) 1105, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), known to many as the “Two Napkin Protocol” — in reference to the napkins they used to capture their thoughts.




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