Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

I still have a slew on Lantronix terminal servers :)

-mel via cell

> On Sep 1, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>
> 
> > On 9/1/21 11:42 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> > For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at the dawn of the Internet, was the primary 
> > editor of this landmark document.
> >
> > Those were the days we thought ARPAnet would never be allowed to go commercial. Thanks to Jon’s tireless campaigning 
> > (among others), not to mention meticulous documentation, it did.
> >
> > He was taken from us too soon.
> >
> > https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/
> RFC 791 and 793 are remarkably easy to read and follow what's going on. And that's not just hindsight speaking. We 
> implemented both a few years later purely from the RFC's with no connection to anybody else and when we actually had 
> kit that was connected to the Internet it just worked. One of the most remarkable things in my life was that I wrote 
> debugger for the OS I wrote for the Lantronix terminal servers which I ended up remotely debugging in New Zealand. 
> That was just mind blowing. Of course you'd call that a backdoor these days but they were very happy that I could 
> figure out what was going on.
>
> I never had the pleasure of meeting Jon, though I saw him at IETF meetings.
>
> Mike