Re: SRI's Dan Lynch dies

[Joe Klein <jsklein () gmail com>]

Wow, I have not spoken to Dan Lynch in 8 years. He was brilliant!

Raise glass for Dan!

Joe Klein

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:06 PM joe hess <joebhess () gmail com> wrote:

> 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