16 Oct
2011
16 Oct
'11
10:52 a.m.
On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:20 58PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Joffe" <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Subject: 13 years ago today - October 16, 1998... we lost Jon.
It feels like just yesterday.
My path didn't cross Jon's much... but he was nice enough to reserve the really cool RFC number that graces my AFJ contribution from 1997 -- 3 or 4 RFCs with higher numbers came out in March.
Ah, I'm not the only one he did that for. I asked if the IAB/IESG statement on crypto could by RFC 1984. He told me that he never reserved RFC numbers -- but that coincidences could happen... --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb