2. Acknowledgements

2. Acknowledgements

This document was originally published as [RFC1267] in October 1991, jointly authored by Kirk Lougheed and Yakov Rekhter.

We would like to express our thanks to Guy Almes, Len Bosack, and Jeffrey C. Honig for their contributions to the earlier version (BGP-1) of this document.

We would like to specially acknowledge numerous contributions by Dennis Ferguson to the earlier version of this document.

We would like to explicitly thank Bob Braden for the review of the earlier version (BGP-2) of this document, and for his constructive and valuable comments.

We would also like to thank Bob Hinden, Director for Routing of the Internet Engineering Steering Group, and the team of reviewers he assembled to review the earlier version (BGP-2) of this document. This team, consisting of Deborah Estrin, Milo Medin, John Moy, Radia Perlman, Martha Steenstrup, Mike St. Johns, and Paul Tsuchiya, acted with a strong combination of toughness, professionalism, and courtesy.

Certain sections of the document borrowed heavily from IDRP [IS10747], which is the OSI counterpart of BGP. For this, credit should be given to the ANSI X3S3.3 group chaired by Lyman Chapin and to Charles Kunzinger, who was the IDRP editor within that group.

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We would also like to thank Benjamin Abarbanel, Enke Chen, Edward Crabbe, Mike Craren, Vincent Gillet, Eric Gray, Jeffrey Haas, Dimitry Haskin, Stephen Kent, John Krawczyk, David LeRoy, Dan Massey, Jonathan Natale, Dan Pei, Mathew Richardson, John Scudder, John Stewart III, Dave Thaler, Paul Traina, Russ White, Curtis Villamizar, and Alex Zinin for their comments.

We would like to specially acknowledge Andrew Lange for his help in preparing the final version of this document.

Finally, we would like to thank all the members of the IDR Working Group for their ideas and the support they have given to this document.