Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!

Wed Sep 1 20:32:57 UTC 2021

On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
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> For anyone unaware, Jon Postel, a good friend and mentor to many of us at the dawn of the Internet, was the primary editor of this landmark document. 
> 
> Those were the days we thought ARPAnet would never be allowed to go commercial. Thanks to Jon’s tireless campaigning (among others), not to mention meticulous documentation, it did. 
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> He was taken from us too soon.
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> https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/

Indeed.   Also worth reading is Vint’s “I remember IANA” RFC <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468>> – 
calling out Jon’s enormous contribution to our industry & honored by the ISOC service award bearing his name.

FYI,
/John

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