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If anything, these kind of issues we see popping up here and there are proof of the high availability of the Internet and specifically how protocols such as BGP
by CloudNetworking 6y ago
If anything, these kind of issues we see popping up here and there are proof of the high availability of the Internet and specifically how protocols such as BGP helped on making it what it is today.
It is not that we have built the Internet despite BGP. We have built it thanks to BGP. If we didn't have BGP we would have to invent it :)
- alexchamberlain 6y agoIsn’t the point that BGP is great in the same way as the Model T was great? No one is saying it wasn’t needed or - to a certain extent - doesn’t do the job, but given recent (and not so recent) improvements to technology and security standards, maybe we need a BGP 2.0?
- PietjePukster 6y agoBGP 2.0, like self driving cars, are five years away. For the last 20 years..
- p_l 6y agoGood that we're running BGP 4, right? ;)
- Aperocky 6y agoThis makes total sense because humans are inherently lazy. Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux. But it's still being worked on in 2020.
- phone8675309 6y ago> humans are inherently lazy > Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux. I think Hurd is not a good example of this. Hurd being sidelined seems to me to be a result of bikeshedding (which microkernel to use) and realizing that Linux (as a kernel) had more effort being poured into it because it had more mindshare. > But it's still being worked on in 2020. At more or less a leisurely pace as a passion project more than the end goal being production, precisely because the social goal that it was trying to achieve has been mostly achieved by the Linux kernel.
- cm2187 6y agoYou could say the same thing of http 1.0. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t have flaws or room for improvement.