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Re: a moment of silence
From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:29:10 -0700
In message <Pine.SV4.3.96.991014111538.5120A-100000@inx>, "John D. Vo" writes:
Forgive my igorance. Who is Jon Postel?
Short summary. Jon Postel was the RFC Editor from the series inception (1969) until his death last year. He was also the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, and gave out all IP addresses, TCP and UDP reserved ports, top level domain names, and the like. More important, he was the author/editor of the specifications for TCP, IP, SMTP, and a raft of other Internet protocols, and during the Internet's early operational years, was the Internet Architect -- responsible for overseeing lots of the work of revising and revamping the protocols as they bent and broke during early operational use in the 1980s. Those who had the pleasure of working with Jon typically remember him as thoughtful, fair, and deeply interested in the welfare of the Internet. He put the Internet's welfare well ahead of his own -- he never cashed in on his expertise. Jon wasn't perfect -- he did make mistakes -- but he invariably made them after careful thought and tried to make the decision he believed was best for the Internet. Craig
Current thread:
- Re: a moment of silence, (continued)
- Re: a moment of silence John D. Vo (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Alex P. Rudnev (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Joe Shaw (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Kevin Oberman (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence scott w (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Ted Frohling (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Peter Galbavy (Oct 15)
- Re: a moment of silence Jeffrey Haas (Oct 15)
- Re: a moment of silence John D. Vo (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Rodney Joffe (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Joe Shaw (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence Craig Partridge (Oct 14)
- Re: a moment of silence bmanning (Oct 14)