Bah!
BGP? All those ARPANET-era protocols were built with an optimistic "trustworthy" outlook. They should have been scrapped and replaced years ago when the internet stopped being the sole province of students and the US armed forces.
The internet: a model for how politics works in a democracy. You only replace something or fix it if it breaks catastrophically. Otherwise, you soldier on with a brave face.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
