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-comp...
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