Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

[John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>]

On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> 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/

Indeed.   Also worth reading is Vint’s “I remember IANA” RFC <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468>> – 
calling out Jon’s enormous contribution to our industry & honored by the ISOC service award bearing his name.

FYI,
/John