About two years ago, Merit called upon Mark Knopper to accept the position of manager of the Internet Engineering Group and to oversee the transition from the T1 NSFNET to the T3 NSFNET. Mark stepped up to the challenge and guided the NSFNET through that difficult transition. His technical expertise and management skills have proven valuable not just in the context of the NSFNET but to the global Internet community. It should not come as a great surprise that many organizations and companies have been courting Mark, and one of them has finally offered him a project that sounds interesting enough to intice him to move on. Mark will be leaving Merit as of January 1, 1994 for new and exciting challenges at Ameritech. He will be opening an office in Ann Arbor and will be part of the the Advanced Data Services group. He has also promised all Merit staff better phone service and IP to every home in the service area :=) Effective today, Elise Gerich will take the lead as Manager of the Internet Engineering Group. As most of you know, Elise has been instrumental in the management and operation of the NSFNET since its inception. Elise is looking forward to helping the regional-techs group evolve to a broader operational forum and to working with the regionals to transition from the current NSFNET architecture to the future architecture. jim
Congratulations Elise! Allen Cole University of Utah Computer Center cole@cc.utah.edu 3440 Merrill Engineering Building cole@utahcca.bitnet Salt Lake City, UT 84112 utah-cs!cole (801) 581-8805 On Fri, 3 Dec 1993, Jim Williams wrote:
About two years ago, Merit called upon Mark Knopper to accept the position of manager of the Internet Engineering Group and to oversee the transition from the T1 NSFNET to the T3 NSFNET. Mark stepped up to the challenge and guided the NSFNET through that difficult transition. His technical expertise and management skills have proven valuable not just in the context of the NSFNET but to the global Internet community. It should not come as a great surprise that many organizations and companies have been courting Mark, and one of them has finally offered him a project that sounds interesting enough to intice him to move on. Mark will be leaving Merit as of January 1, 1994 for new and exciting challenges at Ameritech. He will be opening an office in Ann Arbor and will be part of the the Advanced Data Services group. He has also promised all Merit staff better phone service and IP to every home in the service area :=)
Effective today, Elise Gerich will take the lead as Manager of the Internet Engineering Group. As most of you know, Elise has been instrumental in the management and operation of the NSFNET since its inception. Elise is looking forward to helping the regional-techs group evolve to a broader operational forum and to working with the regionals to transition from the current NSFNET architecture to the future architecture.
jim
Jim: Since you are a latecomer and obviously do not have all the information I forgive you ;) But I think I should point out: |About two years ago, Merit called upon Mark Knopper to accept the |position of manager of the Internet Engineering Group and to oversee |the transition from the T1 NSFNET to the T3 NSFNET. Mark stepped up The planning/transition/design started in about mid-1989, some even earlier. By the end of 1990 we had cross country T3 connectivity, almost a year before the two years you mentioned. I will attach a relevant message. Don't get me wrong, Mark deserves alot of credit (as does Jordan Becker of ANS, for example), I am just commenting on your wording. |Effective today, Elise Gerich will take the lead as Manager of the |Internet Engineering Group. As most of you know, Elise has been |instrumental in the management and operation of the NSFNET since its |inception. Elise is looking forward to helping the regional-techs |group evolve to a broader operational forum and to working with the |regionals to transition from the current NSFNET architecture to the |future architecture. Elise also deserves alot of credit for her talents that allowed her to grow into such a (well deserved) position. But, the NSFNET inception was in about 1985-ish, well before Elise was hired as a Site Coordinator into the Information Services group at Merit, which happened shortly after Merit entered into the NSFNET backbone agreement with NSF towards the end of 1987. Besides that, great to see that Mark will help U.S. telecom industry with data communications, I am sure his skills will be very valuable to them. And also great to see Elise playing such an interesting role, given all the efforts she has put into the project over the years. Hans-Werner --- From epg@merit.edu Mon Dec 31 15:53:06 1990 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 90 15:52:39 EST From: Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu> Message-Id: <9012312052.AA05719@merit.edu> To: members@farnet.com, partners@merit.edu, regional-techs@merit.edu Subject: Introducing Production Traffic on the T3 NSFNET December 31, 1990 The NSFNET partnership has been in the process of building an eight node T3 backbone to complement the T1 NSFNET backbone. The T3 end nodes which are currently installed are San Diego, Urbana-Champaign, Ann Arbor, and Palo Alto. We already have begun to route some traffic between San Diego, Urbana-Champaign, and Ann Arbor, and are in the process of phasing in more production traffic. We are pleased to announce that the installed end nodes, constituting half of the initial T3 NSFNET backbone, are ready for operational traffic, with the remaining nodes to become operational over the coming weeks. Happy New Year everyone! The NSFNET Partnership Holiday Crew
Jim, Thanks for the kind message. I should point out that while I did spend an excessive amount of my life working on the stability of the T3 net and that transition, several other folks should get credit for helping to oversee it (Hans-Werner Braun, Jordan Becker and Elise Gerich for example). Also, I'll still be active in IETF meetings and activities. Since I plan to help Ameritech Advanced Data Services become an IP network service provider, I'll also continue to participate in the various network operator coordinating groups (such as this one). I'm looking for office space in Ann Arbor and will be hiring a staff, beginning January 4. Mark ps. Good luck to Elise, and may her transitions be straightforward....
From: Jim Williams <jimw@merit.edu> To: regional-techs@merit.edu
About two years ago, Merit called upon Mark Knopper to accept the position of manager of the Internet Engineering Group and to oversee the transition from the T1 NSFNET to the T3 NSFNET. Mark stepped up to the challenge and guided the NSFNET through that difficult transition. His technical expertise and management skills have proven valuable not just in the context of the NSFNET but to the global Internet community. It should not come as a great surprise that many organizations and companies have been courting Mark, and one of them has finally offered him a project that sounds interesting enough to intice him to move on. Mark will be leaving Merit as of January 1, 1994 for new and exciting challenges at Ameritech. He will be opening an office in Ann Arbor and will be part of the the Advanced Data Services group. He has also promised all Merit staff better phone service and IP to every home in the service area :=)
Effective today, Elise Gerich will take the lead as Manager of the Internet Engineering Group. As most of you know, Elise has been instrumental in the management and operation of the NSFNET since its inception. Elise is looking forward to helping the regional-techs group evolve to a broader operational forum and to working with the regionals to transition from the current NSFNET architecture to the future architecture.
jim
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