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Lougheed and Rekhter: the first Border Gateway Protocol RFC

Contribution grade

Networking and internet · ALGORITHM

Reference score145,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Specified first BGP interdomain reachability and AS-path exchange over reliable transport.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author experimental RFC 1105 from June 1989. It does not absorb EGP, later BGP versions, present-day BGP-4, implementation communities or claims that the original protocol solved routing security.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author experimental RFC 1105 from June 1989. It does not absorb EGP, later BGP versions, present-day BGP-4, implementation communities or claims that the original protocol solved routing security.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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