Sigh. 16 years ago today.

Thu Oct 16 18:18:11 UTC 2014

On Oct 15, 2014, at 23:20 , Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net> wrote:

> On 10/15/2014 23:42, Rodney Joffe wrote:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
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> I posted this to Facebook a while ago:
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> From NANOG
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> Subject: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
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> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
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> [Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still is. But I mention it also because it points out that whereas we bang our heads against soul-less monoliths, it seems, in the early days it was a really small, close-knit group that brought this Internet thing out of the labs and stood it up and made it play in remarkably productive ways.]

In many ways, today, it is a larger and more diverse group, but the bottom line is that behind all those peering relationships, NANOG conferences, ARIN meetings, etc. are a dedicated group of engineers just trying to keep it all functional.

Owen

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> The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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