Re: SRI's Dan Lynch dies

[joe hess <joebhess () gmail com>]

Thanks for sharing this, too.    Lynch was really underrated for what he did.  He basically made certain that people 
made their dreams work together, or at least that is what I saw.

Too, when you asked any questions in the Internet’s early days, all the answers eventually seemed to wind back to Dan.  
 

I only knew him by remote interaction, and I have often felt cheated that I didn’t get to know him better.



> On Apr 1, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Sajit Bhaskaran <sajit () aspen-networks com> wrote:
>
> RIP Dan Lynch. It is worth adding that he was also the founder of the Interop shows in the mid 80s which achieved a 
> great deal in terms of advancing TCP/IP adoption, and inter-operability testing was a big deal back then when the 
> future of TCP/IP was also not at all certain, as it was in competition then with the ISO/OSI protocol suite. Dan's 
> efforts and passion as an entrepreneur created an exponentially growing community of users and vendors all over the 
> world that made the TCP/IP protocol suite the de facto standard. Thanks very much for sharing. Today we take the 
> Internet for granted. It could have been very different.
>
> On 3/31/2024 12:19 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > > From Lauren Weinstein @ PRIVACY Digest:
> >
> > """
> > Dan Lynch, one of the key people involved in building the Internet and
> > ARPANET before it, has died.
> >
> > Dan was director of computing facilities at SRI International, where
> > ARPANET node #2 was located and he worked on development of TCP/IP, and
> > where the first packets were received from our site at UCLA node #1 to
> > SRI, and later at USC-ISI led the team that made the transition from the
> > original ARPANET NCP protocols to TCP/IP for the Internet. And much more.
> >
> > Peace. -L
> > """
> >
> > He was well written up across the web, but here's a 2021 piece for those
> > who aren't as familiar with his background:
> >
> > https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-love-brilliant-complexity-fuels-early-internet-development-growth/
> >
> > And his IHoF induction speech:
> >
> > http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dan-lynch-ihof-2019-speech/
> >
> > I would note his age here, as obits usually do, but it seems unusually difficult
> > to learn.
> >
> > Happy landings, Mr Lynch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra