How soon we forget!
It was a telephone call to Jon (there was no email) in 1981 that
got my group the network that I still manage. He was the editor
for the three RFCs that have my name on them. I remember him as a
brilliant, kindly, efficient, helpful, and dedicated giant of the
early Internet.
- Brian
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.
