I don't think we need a new bgp, we just need to fix the old bgp. I have yet to see a practical and realistic alternative. Also, don't forget MPLS is very inter

I don't think we need a new bgp, we just need to fix the old bgp. I have yet to see a practical and realistic alternative. Also, don't forget MPLS is very interdependent in it's current state on BGP, and MPLS is really awesome. Yes, BGP has some weaknesses, but perhaps calling for a new bgp is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You know what I think is more of a problem is vendor market dominance that uses closed source proprietary boxen on proprietary platforms designed for vendor lock in. Also, some have referenced the power of asics in these black boxen over cots hardware, but these days thats not true because there are open source systems with asics in them. Not exactly related to BGP, but I did an entire infrastructure upgrade for a company. I talked to every vendor in existence, extreme, juniper, cisco, brocade, etc etc. I ended up going with Ubiquiti and saving over $50k... These vendors are gouging customers who already have problems with IT infrastructure budgets, and I'm tired of dealing with them. (and their often non-spec implimentations of protocls) On top of that, you would be amazed at how many "network engineers" don't know anything but cisco, and couldn't route their way out of a paper bag in anything else, this result of the vendor lock-in is much more of a problem. Lets also not forget to mention the NSA-cisco, etc backdooring systems.