1 Sep
2021
1 Sep
'21
4:32 p.m.
On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at the dawn of the Internet, was the primary editor of this landmark document.
Those were the days we thought ARPAnet would never be allowed to go commercial. Thanks to Jon’s tireless campaigning (among others), not to mention meticulous documentation, it did.
He was taken from us too soon.
Indeed. Also worth reading is Vint’s “I remember IANA” RFC <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468>> – calling out Jon’s enormous contribution to our industry & honored by the ISOC service award bearing his name. FYI, /John