Although this post is from May 2016, Petr Lapukhov at Facebook outlines an method to replace routing protocols with a message bus to enable real network applications.
I’m doubtful that wider networking market would adopt something that doesn’t have BGP in the solution but Facebook has the resources to develop something like this and prove that it works. That could change perceptions. In any case, thought provoking reading.
Introducing Open/R — a new modular routing platform | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook: “The Open/R software enables rapid prototyping and deployment of new applications to the network much more frequently than the industry’s standard development process. To create an interoperable standard, the industry’s process is often lengthy due to code being built independently by multiple vendors and then slowly deployed to their customer networks. Furthermore, every vendor has to accommodate for the demands of numerous customers — complicating the development process and requiring features that are not always useful universally.”
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