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IP: Re: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 06:13:35 -0500
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:09:32 -0500 (EST) From: <ronda () panix com> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on It is indeed very sad to hear of this great loss to the networking community. I wanted to add another important contribution of Mike's to the development of the Internet. He created and moderated the ARPANET TCP/IP Digest which helped in making the cutover from NCP to TCP/IP on the ARPANET in January 1983. The TCP/IP Digest provided a forum in which to discuss the problems that those who were to do the cutover identified so they could be solved. The cutover set the basis for the creation of the Internet as a metanetwork of diverse networks. After the cutover, the ARPANET was split into MILNET, an operational network for the DoD, and the ARPANET, a research network. These two different networks were able to communicate via tcp/ip communicate using TCP/IP. And that is some of the basis of the Internet as we know it today. A while ago, I wrote a paper about the role the TCP/IP Digest played in the cutover online. The URL is http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/tcpdraft.txt In the research I have done about the early ARPANET mailing lists, Mike's role in contributing to the networking and UNIX communities stands out. His efforts helped to connect these two pioneering communities. He will indeed be missed. Ronda ronda () panix com http://www.columbia.edu/~netbook http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers
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