I posted this to Facebook a while ago:
From NANOG
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
[Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still is. But I mention it also because it points out that whereas we bang our heads against soul-less monoliths, it seems, in the early days it was a really small, close-knit group that brought this Internet thing out of the labs and stood it up and made it play in remarkably productive ways.]
I posted this to Facebook a while ago:
From NANOG
Subject: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
[Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still is. But I mention it also because it points out that whereas we bang our heads against soul-less monoliths, it seems, in the early days it was a really small, close-knit group that brought this Internet thing out of the labs and stood it up and made it play in remarkably productive ways.]
In many ways, today, it is a larger and more diverse group, but the bottom line is that behind all those peering relationships, NANOG conferences, ARIN meetings, etc. are a dedicated group of engineers just trying to keep it all functional.
Owen
At the time he died I was just being introduced to Internet, and first read
his name when reading rfc 821. I had never really heard of Jon Postel's
legacy until a remembrance on this list some years back which is when I
added a reminder to my calendar. Every year it reminds me that "*if I have
seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.*"
D.
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