> > 2) I was thinking about how we could get Dave recognized for his > contributions. Like other unsung heroes, Dave didn't work for BBN or some > other moneyed entity who would commission a book or a memorial. (BBN paid > Katie Hafner to write the text that later turned into her book "When Wizards > Stay Up Late", which oddly only talked about the ARPANET/Internet pioneers > who worked for BBN, omitting many of my Internet colleagues.) Dave wasn't > the kind of guy that gets Awards from the Computer History Museum or the ACM > or IEEE. He wasn't beloved at IETF or ISOC that I know of. He's in the > category of folks like Noel Chiappa or Bram Cohen or Richard Stallman or > Aaron Swartz - people I think really changed the way we think about computing > and internetworking, but who won't be in the official histories.
He did not fit in a typical corporate culture especially in his later years. He got a certain amount of respect at the IETF. _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
