october 16th is the first anniversary of the death of jon postel.
while it might be tempting to shut the net off for an hour in
memoriam, it does not seem very responsible.
i intend to shut down my personal home/office site and all servers
there for the day. others may have their own ways of expressing
respect and regret.
randy
Forgive my igorance. Who is Jon Postel?
-John,
look at the date. you are all responding to some sicko mail system's
remailing of an old message. and yes, this was reported to merit many
hours ago.
randy
Btw, it's better to provide more info about him, and ask those who can set
the banner refferring to this info, than to turn off/on anything. I am
sure he prefer this.
Alex
He was the author of many RFC's on how to make the Internet a better
place.
Joe Shaw wrote:
He was the author of many RFC's on how to make the Internet a better
place.--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."> Forgive my igorance. Who is Jon Postel?
He was really a lot more than that. To get a broader picture, see
http://www.iana.org which has all the well-known links.
Indeed, he was. I got into this business in 1995, so my ties with
Mr. Postel don't go back as far as many of you. My apologies for my own
ignorance.