Re:XORP spawned from Click... (Score 1)

Actually the paper says, "we where inspired by prior work on extensible forwarding planes" and merely names Click as one example. Extensible forwarding planes and doing software-based routers have been around a long time. It isn't clear why this article was posted now, XORP project has been around for years already. It also has not made a dent in Cisco's business (nor was it intended to).