Reading On "RON"

Summary: This paper presents RON- resilient overlay network which tights the applications and routing to let end-to-end communications be unaffected in face of path outlets. RON is a novel way to deal with the underlying network protocol's problems, especially BGP's long convergence time caused by link failures. 

Background: BGP

Discussion:

This is a very good paper which has been cited by 1185 times. I think the following reasons which let this paper be so popular:

1, No matter RON is practical or not,  the idea in it is quite new that tries to solve underlying network problems in the end user perspective. (a new story of End to End argument?)

2, Real data from real world. The author deployed 16 RON nodes in the Internet and got convincing results to show the RON's effectiveness.

3, Authors themselves has realized the RON's problems and explained them clearly in paper.