remembering Jon Postel: Looking Beyond the Decade
Tony Varriale
tvarriale at comcast.net
Thu Oct 2 18:40:06 UTC 2008
Any chance this will be captured (maybe professionally via HD:)?
Unfortunately I cannot be there but would really appreciate being in the
audience.
tv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Joffe" <rjoffe at centergate.com>
To: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle at gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: remembering Jon Postel: Looking Beyond the Decade
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Scott Francis wrote:
>
>> nice writeup by Mr. Cerf:
>> http://www.circleid.com/posts/ 20081001_remembering_jon_postel_a_decade/
>>
>> I was not fortunate enough to have known Mr. Postel, but I have
>> developed a deep posthumous respect for the work he did from listening
>> to what others have had to say about him, and from using (and
>> benefiting from) his legacy on a daily basis. He was not alone among
>> the pioneers who enabled the Internet to become what it is today, but
>> there weren't many who made such a significant contribution.
>
> You may want to then consider coming to the next NANOG being held in just
> under two weeks time in Los Angeles (http://www.nanog.org/). This NANOG
> celebrates Jon's contributions on the 10th Anniversary of his passing
> (Oct 16) and includes a rare keynote opening speech by Vint Cerf, as well
> as a 90 minute panel of folks who were "there" when some important
> decisions were made, and who will share with us the reasons some of those
> decisions were made. Panelists like Paul Mockapetris who invented the
> DNS, Bob Braden who has taken care of much of Jon's role as RFC editor
> since Jon left us, Danny Cohen who Jon worked for, and who also worked
> for Jon ;-) at ISI in the '70s, Bob Hinden who was the ietf's first Area
> Director for routing, Lixia Zhang who was part of a small group of 6
> including Jon who tackled the issues of addressing for the iab/iesg, and
> Van Jacobson, who you probably know mostly for his congestion control
> work, but who Paul Francis "credits" for the concept of NAT. Of course
> these folks had many other key contributions to "the Internets".
>
> Besides these official speakers at NANOG 44 you'll also get to meet in
> person many of Jon's peers and friends from the early days. I hesitate to
> name any, but if you listen carefully in the hallways, and for comments
> from the audience during this NANOG, you'll pick up on them.
>
> If you want to get to know more about some of the people who really gave
> us the opportunity to do the things we do today, this is probably the
> NANOG you want to attend. BTW, it is a joint meeting with ARIN, so you
> get a two'fer.
>
> ""be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
> others" - Postel's Law
>
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