From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In memoriam: Jon Postel
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:13:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181016111307.26DD318C08D@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Dave Horsfall
> We lost Jon Postel, regarded as the Father of the Internet
Vint and Bob Kahn might disagree with that that... :-)
> (due to his many RFCs)
You need to distinguish between the many for which he was an editor (e.g. IP,
TCP, etc), and the (relatively few, compared to the others) which he actually
wrote himself, e.g. RFC-925, "Multi-LAN address resolution".
Not that he didn't make absolutely huge contributions, but we should be
accurate.
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2018-10-16 11:23 UTC|newest]
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2018-10-16 11:13 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2018-10-29 1:48 ` Dave Horsfall
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2018-10-16 4:35 Dave Horsfall
2018-10-16 14:01 ` Kaveh Ranjbar via TUHS
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