Who do we appreciate...?

Wed Oct 21 01:44:59 UTC 1998

This seemed pertinent...

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Subject: RFC 2468 on I REMEMBER IANA
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:19:23 -0700
From: RFC Editor <rfc-ed at ISI.EDU>

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

	RFC 2468:

        Title:	    I REMEMBER IANA    
	Author(s):  V. Cerf
	Status:     Informational
	Date:       October 1998
        Mailbox:    vcerf at mci.net
	Pages:      4
        Characters: 8543	
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None
        I-D Tag:    None

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2468.txt

Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone.  Even as I write these words I cannot
quite grasp this stark fact.  We had almost lost him once before in
1991.  Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all.  But he had been
our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was
built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when
our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult
decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful
consideration was needed.  We will survive our loss and we will
remember.  He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to
contemplate.  Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed
paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of
technical and sometimes political obstacles.

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