----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rodney Joffe" <[email protected]>
> 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. I didn't know Jon personally, but I was still proud to have gotten an RFC approved by him -- RFC 2100, "The Naming Of Hosts"... which is now immortalized on my Florida license plate, after I lost LINUX, which I had for 30 years... And for reasons I was never clear on, he actually *reserved* the number, releasing several >2100 RFCs in the days before 1 April that year. :-) Still appreciate him. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
