SRI's Dan Lynch dies

Mon Apr 1 18:12:39 UTC 2024

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