Re: So much for the original intent of the ARPANET
The original thinking for ARPANET did not include BGP. I believe that the alternative routing strategies were provided by static routing with routes preferences and hopcounts providing alternate pathing.
For some history, look up RIP, which was deployed sometime around 1969.
But RIP would never cope in today's massively complicated Internet. Since class-based routing broke down to allow re-use of the previously reserved network ranges that have been freed up to keep IP4 going, the routing tables that the core routers have to know are HUGE.
But considering how BGP hijacking has been known about for a long time, I'm surprised that it has taken this long for a key based trust system to be introduced.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
