Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

[Suzanne Woolf]

> On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:00 PM, Rodney Joffe <rjo...@centergate.com> wrote:
> 
> At NANOG two weeks ago, we had an interesting discussion at one of the lunch 
> tables. One of the subjects we discussed was the original IANA, and RFC 
> Editor, Jon Postel.
> 
> Seven of the ten people at the table had never heard of him. Maybe these days 
> it no longer matters who he was, and what he meant to where we are today.
> 
> <Sigh>
> 
> For those who care about the history of the Internet, and routing and 
> addressing. And protocols…

And the principles  that make it “the Internet”, not just “some internets.”

> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
> 



Suzanne