At 7:23 PM 8/15/95, Nicolas Williams wrote: [...]

Colocated BGP4 "proxies" (I'm still not sure what to call these, anyone?) [...]

How about RCP (routing control processor)? And you could call the forwarding box a PSP (packet switching processor). Unless of course IBM has trademarked these or something. --John P.S.: For nostalgia's sake the RCP and PSP could talk over a 4 Mbit token-ring.