SRI's Dan Lynch dies

Sun Mar 31 20:54:18 UTC 2024

I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Lynch, but I thought id add that from other sources I am told he was 82 years old.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-c-lynch-dead.html

Thank you for sharing the news to this list. I’m sure he is and will be greatly missed by those who knew him.  I’m thankful for all he did for computing and the Internet.

John Stitt

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On Mar 31, 2024, at 2:20 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

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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,
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