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The New Routing Algorithm for the ARPANET

John M. McQuillan, Ira Richer, Eric C. Rosen

One-line summary: Shortest-path-first (based on delay) routing trees are constructed and updated to direct routing, with various precautions taken to insure that all nodes' databases are consistent.

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The humble beginnings of modern routing-update protocols. Like other papers from the early days (except for the Cerf and Kahn paper), it's somewhat jumbled and hard to read.

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