Re: 13 years ago today - October 16, 1998...

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:20 58PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rodney Joffe" <rjoffe () centergate com>
>
> > Subject: 13 years ago today - October 16, 1998...
> > we lost Jon.
> >
> > It feels like just yesterday.
> >
> > http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html
>
> My path didn't cross Jon's much... but he was nice enough to reserve the
> really cool RFC number that graces my AFJ contribution from 1997 -- 3 or 4
> RFCs with higher numbers came out in March.


Ah, I'm not the only one he did that for.  I asked if the IAB/IESG statement
on crypto could by RFC 1984.  He told me that he never reserved RFC numbers --
but that coincidences could happen...

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb