Thanks for sharing this, too. Lynch was really underrated for what he did. He basically made certain that people made their dreams work together, or at least that is what I saw.
Too, when you asked any questions in the Internet’s early days, all the answers eventually seemed to wind back to Dan. I only knew him by remote interaction, and I have often felt cheated that I didn’t get to know him better. > On Apr 1, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Sajit Bhaskaran <sa...@aspen-networks.com> wrote: > > RIP Dan Lynch. It is worth adding that he was also the founder of the Interop > shows in the mid 80s which achieved a great deal in terms of advancing TCP/IP > adoption, and inter-operability testing was a big deal back then when the > future of TCP/IP was also not at all certain, as it was in competition then > with the ISO/OSI protocol suite. Dan's efforts and passion as an entrepreneur > created an exponentially growing community of users and vendors all over the > world that made the TCP/IP protocol suite the de facto standard. Thanks very > much for sharing. Today we take the Internet for granted. It could have been > very different. > > On 3/31/2024 12:19 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> >From Lauren Weinstein @ PRIVACY Digest: >> >> """ >> Dan Lynch, one of the key people involved in building the Internet and >> ARPANET before it, has died. >> >> Dan was director of computing facilities at SRI International, where >> ARPANET node #2 was located and he worked on development of TCP/IP, and >> where the first packets were received from our site at UCLA node #1 to >> SRI, and later at USC-ISI led the team that made the transition from the >> original ARPANET NCP protocols to TCP/IP for the Internet. And much more. >> >> Peace. -L >> """ >> >> He was well written up across the web, but here's a 2021 piece for those >> who aren't as familiar with his background: >> >> https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-love-brilliant-complexity-fuels-early-internet-development-growth/ >> >> And his IHoF induction speech: >> >> http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dan-lynch-ihof-2019-speech/ >> >> I would note his age here, as obits usually do, but it seems unusually >> difficult >> to learn. >> >> Happy landings, Mr Lynch. >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra
