It is a fact that I learned much of what I initially knew about internetworking by reading the protocols outlined in many of the offical RFC documents. You couldn't pick one of these up without seeing the name Postel at the top. I never met him but give due deference and respect to his work and what it ultimately produced.
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:00:33PM -0400, Rodney Joffe 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??? > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 > > Oct 16, 1998. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
