Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread John Curran
On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman 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. Thank

Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/1/21 12:26 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: I still have a slew on Lantronix terminal servers :) A few years back I was shocked to hear that the original OS that I wrote -- called whimsically Punix for Puny Unix -- which was used by Lantronix was still being sold. I mean, that's over 30 years ag

Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread Mel Beckman
I still have a slew on Lantronix terminal servers :) -mel via cell > On Sep 1, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > >  >> On 9/1/21 11:42 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: >> For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at >> the dawn of the Internet, was the primary edit

Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/1/21 11:42 AM, Mel Beckman 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 tireles

Re: Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread Mel Beckman
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 menti

Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

2021-09-01 Thread Michael Thomas
aka IPv4. The RFC doesn't have the exact date it was published, but the internet as we know it was being born. What a journey it's been. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc791 Mike