<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 1 Sep 2021, at 2:42 PM, Mel Beckman <<a href="mailto:mel@beckman.org" class="">mel@beckman.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">He was taken from us too soon.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/" class="">https://www.ietfjournal.org/in-memory-of-jon-postel/</a></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Indeed. Also worth reading is Vint’s “I remember IANA” RFC <<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468" class="">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468</a>> – </div><div>calling out Jon’s enormous contribution to our industry & honored by the ISOC service award bearing his name.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>FYI,</div><div>/John</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>