The first RFC describing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), RFC 1105, was published in June 1989, thirty years ago. By any metric that makes BGP a venerable protocol in the Internet context and considering that it holds the Internet together it’s still a central piece of the Internet’s infrastructure.” https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/10/happy-birthday-bgp/ Read the rest here: https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/10/happy-birthday-bgp/