Thanks for sharing Rodney! Regards, Melchior
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:05 AM Rodney Joffe <[email protected]> wrote: > It is especially fitting whenever the NANOG/ARIN joint meetings occur in > the same week that we “remember IANA”. > > As time has gone on, fewer and fewer of us actually know who J. Postel is > - that name that appears at the end of so many RFC’s we refer to every day. > The same person who also guided the management of names and numbers in the > “early” days of this grand experiment we’re still struggling to get “right”. > > Today (Friday, October 16) is 22 years since Jon Postel passed away. I > won’t start to list the rest of the pioneers we’ve lost since then - its > obviously getting longer and longer. But I think its worth pointing > “newcomers" at Vint’s RFC2468 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt) as > the starting point for them (you) to understand the importance of Jon’s > legacy as a moral compass to help guide some of the decisions being made or > ignored during this week. And obviously other weeks and decisions that > follow. > > Jon was my mentor, colleague, business partner, and friend. And along with > his other friends still on this list, I miss him a lot. It hasn’t been the > same without him. > > /rlj
