Wow, I have not spoken to Dan Lynch in 8 years. He was brilliant! Raise glass for Dan!
Joe Klein "inveniet viam, aut faciet" --- Seneca's Hercules Furens (Act II, Scene 1) "*I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." -- *Wayne Gretzky "I never lose. I either win or learn" - Nelson Mandela On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 6:06 PM joe hess <joebh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
