[resurrecting this thread, as it's been a while since I read nanog-ml, and this is surprisingly important to me...] On 19 October 2013 15:36, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
abha ahuja, researcher and operator, died this day in 2001 at a tragically early age. if you did not know her, search a bit. she did a lot, and with an open mind and heart.
I met Abha whilst working in Amsterdam (on Squid, doing (consentual!) transparent reverse proxying for customer websites at a transit provider. Yes, I know, evil.) I was a bit star struck - I had been using GateD for three or four years at various ISPs before Europe, and then one day she casually strolls into the office. I remember one of our excursions into the city centre (likely to a RIPE meeting day) and she wondered why the heck anyone would want to teach a web proxy about AS numbers. She was always energetic and passionate about whatever we talked about. It was inspiring. I had just turned 21 shortly before this happened. I had just moved back to Australia and we had been keeping in touch. Then, this. It was very sobering. Sigh. -adrian (hi all!)