Re: SRI's Dan Lynch dies

[joe hess]

Thanks for sharing this, too.Lynch was really underrated for what he did.  
He basically made certain that people made their dreams work together, or at 
least that is what I saw.

Too, when you asked any questions in the Internet’s early days, all the answers 
eventually seemed to wind back to Dan.   

I only knew him by remote interaction, and I have often felt cheated that I 
didn’t get to know him better.



> On Apr 1, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Sajit Bhaskaran  wrote:
> 
> RIP Dan Lynch. It is worth adding that he was also the founder of the Interop 
> shows in the mid 80s which achieved a great deal in terms of advancing TCP/IP 
> adoption, and inter-operability testing was a big deal back then when the 
> future of TCP/IP was also not at all certain, as it was in competition then 
> with the ISO/OSI protocol suite. Dan's efforts and passion as an entrepreneur 
> created an exponentially growing community of users and vendors all over the 
> world that made the TCP/IP protocol suite the de facto standard. Thanks very 
> much for sharing. Today we take the Internet for granted. It could have been 
> very different.
> 
> On 3/31/2024 12:19 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> >From Lauren Weinstein @ PRIVACY Digest:
>> 
>> """
>> Dan Lynch, one of the key people involved in building the Internet and
>> ARPANET before it, has died.
>> 
>> Dan was director of computing facilities at SRI International, where
>> ARPANET node #2 was located and he worked on development of TCP/IP, and
>> where the first packets were received from our site at UCLA node #1 to
>> SRI, and later at USC-ISI led the team that made the transition from the
>> original ARPANET NCP protocols to TCP/IP for the Internet. And much more.
>> 
>> Peace. -L
>> """
>> 
>> He was well written up across the web, but here's a 2021 piece for those
>> who aren't as familiar with his background:
>> 
>> https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-love-brilliant-complexity-fuels-early-internet-development-growth/
>> 
>> And his IHoF induction speech:
>> 
>> http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dan-lynch-ihof-2019-speech/
>> 
>> I would note his age here, as obits usually do, but it seems unusually 
>> difficult
>> to learn.
>> 
>> Happy landings, Mr Lynch.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra

Re: Does anybody here have a problem

[joe hess]

There used to be (1990’s) a bunch of guys that were Interop volunteers, but 
they also owned the Renaissance Fair in Novato, Ca.  The company name on the 
fair program as its owner was “The Society for Creative Anachronism.”   I know 
there used to be a fair amount of overlap between the NANOG group and the Fair 
people.

> On Aug 10, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Matthew Petach  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:20 AM Robert Brockway  > wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, C. A. Fillekes wrote:
> 
> > telling the difference between their NANOG and SCA mail?
> 
> Can't say that I do.  I've been on NANOG for about 17 years.  I used to be 
> subscribed to over 100 technical lists.  Despite these two facts I have no 
> idea what you mean by SCA in this context.
> 
> I keep reading it as "Society for Creative Anachronism".
> 
> Would anyone care to enlighten me about this SCA list?  My Googlefu has 
> failed me.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> SCA is the "Society for Creative Announcements", which is all about 
> how to creatively announce your BGP prefixes in ways that get around 
> filters, prefix limits, congested peering links, Backdoor Santa specials, 
> and other such hindrances to the free flow of packets in the directions 
> you really want them to go.
> 
> I can completely understand how the original poster could have 
> gotten the two lists mixed up.  Some days, I can hardly tell them 
> apart myself.
> 
> Matt
> 
> PS--for the humour-impaired, here is your requisite wink:  ;)
>