On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: > > For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at the > dawn of the Internet, was the primary editor of this landmark document. > > Those were the days we thought ARPAnet would never be allowed to go > commercial. Thanks to Jon’s tireless campaigning (among others), not to > mention meticulous documentation, it did. > > He was taken from us too soon. > > https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/
Indeed. Also worth reading is Vint’s “I remember IANA” RFC <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468>> – calling out Jon’s enormous contribution to our industry & honored by the ISOC service award bearing his name. FYI, /John
