I mean no BGP no global internet...just local lans and wans.

iso1210 · on April 6, 2020

BGP didn't start major inroads into the internet until the mid 90s.

RIP can't cope with the scale of the internet today, but to say BGP is essential to interconnecting networks is not right

jlgaddis · on April 6, 2020

Huh?

If you take away BGP, there is no Internet!

No other protocol in existence/use today can scale the way BGP has.