Re: RFC 2468

[Melchior Aelmans <melchior () aelmans eu>]

Thanks for sharing Rodney!

Regards,
Melchior

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:05 AM Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com> wrote:

> It is especially fitting whenever the NANOG/ARIN joint meetings occur in
> the same week that we “remember IANA”.
>
> As time has gone on, fewer and fewer of us actually know who J. Postel is
> - that name that appears at the end of so many RFC’s we refer to every day.
> The same person who also guided the management of names and numbers in the
> “early” days of this grand experiment we’re still struggling to get “right”.
>
> Today (Friday, October 16) is 22 years since Jon Postel passed away. I
> won’t start to list the rest of the pioneers we’ve lost since then - its
> obviously getting longer and longer. But I think its worth pointing
> “newcomers" at Vint’s RFC2468 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt) as
> the starting point for them (you) to understand the importance of Jon’s
> legacy as a moral compass to help guide some of the decisions being made or
> ignored during this week. And obviously other weeks and decisions that
> follow.
>
> Jon was my mentor, colleague, business partner, and friend. And along with
> his other friends still on this list, I miss him a lot. It hasn’t been the
> same without him.
>
> /rlj