--- title: MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog description: A recommendation to watch the 2007 lecture 'BGP at 18: Lessons In Protocol Design' by Dr. Yakov Rekhter, covering the first 18 years of BGP's history and the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: A recommendation to watch the 2007 lecture 'BGP at 18: Lessons In Protocol Design' by Dr. Yakov Rekhter, covering the first 18 years of BGP's history and the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xDj59fA77.png og:image:alt: MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recommendation to watch the 2007 lecture 'BGP at 18: Lessons In Protocol Design' by Dr. Yakov Rekhter, covering the first 18 years of BGP's history and the pragmatism vs. idealism tradeoffs in protocol design. The post is brief but points to a historically significant talk on how BGP evolved and the design decisions behind it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Networking and the Internet, from First Principles · Faza](https://daily.dev/posts/networking-and-the-internet-from-first-principles-faza-0ciffzefa) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#networking](https://daily.dev/tags/networking), [#bgp](https://daily.dev/tags/bgp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:54:49.595Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:17:09.608Z","description":"A recommendation to watch the 2007 lecture 'BGP at 18: Lessons In Protocol Design' by Dr. Yakov Rekhter, covering the first 18 years of BGP's history and the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ipSpace.net Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ipSpace.net Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--xS7E82MT--/f_auto,q_auto/v1786438303/logos/ipspace?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/must-watch-bgp-the-first-18-years-ipspace-net-blog-xdj59fa77","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"networking,bgp","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ipSpace.net Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"MUST WATCH: BGP: the First 18 Years « ipSpace.net blog"}]} ```