GGP, EGP and 25 years of BGP: a brief history of internet routing

25 years BGP

Although there was the ARPANET before it, the internet as we know it today came about in the early 1980s when TCP/IP was invented. Even back then, the nascent internet was a network of networks, and those newfangled IP packets needed to be routed from one organization’s network to another organization’s network. In other words: […]