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 <sajit@aspen-networks.com> 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