Re: coprorations using BGP for advertising prefixes in mid-1990s

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
>
> > On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:53:53 CDT, Michael Sabino said:
> > > If you are a big corporation, and it is 1995, how likely is it that
> > > you'll utilize bgp for advertising your address space to the internet?
> >
> > Well, we got AS1312 sometime before 1996 (the *last changed* timestamp is
> > 19960207), that sort of implies that 1311 other organizations were grabbing AS
> > numbers before that. And since an AS number has no real use for anything other
> > than BGP, that implies some 1,300 organizations doing BGP in the 1995
> > timeframe.
>
> I myself inferred that he meant "large end-user corporations whose primary
> line of business was *not* being a network provider".

Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you
generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that
BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little
"commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional
networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point.

Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI!


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