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Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.


From: Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:11:25 -0400



On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com> wrote:

At NANOG two weeks ago, we had an interesting discussion at one of the lunch tables. One of the subjects we discussed 
was the original IANA, and RFC Editor, Jon Postel.

Seven of the ten people at the table had never heard of him. Maybe these days it no longer matters who he was, and 
what he meant to where we are today.

<Sigh>

For those who care about the history of the Internet, and routing and addressing. And protocols…

And the principles  that make it “the Internet”, not just “some internets.”


https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468




Suzanne


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