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Re: SRI's Dan Lynch dies
From: joe hess <joebhess () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 13:46:22 -0700
Thanks for sharing this, too. Lynch was really underrated for what he did. He basically made certain that people made their dreams work together, or at least that is what I saw. Too, when you asked any questions in the Internet’s early days, all the answers eventually seemed to wind back to Dan. I only knew him by remote interaction, and I have often felt cheated that I didn’t get to know him better.
On Apr 1, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Sajit Bhaskaran <sajit () aspen-networks com> wrote: RIP Dan Lynch. It is worth adding that he was also the founder of the Interop shows in the mid 80s which achieved a great deal in terms of advancing TCP/IP adoption, and inter-operability testing was a big deal back then when the future of TCP/IP was also not at all certain, as it was in competition then with the ISO/OSI protocol suite. Dan's efforts and passion as an entrepreneur created an exponentially growing community of users and vendors all over the world that made the TCP/IP protocol suite the de facto standard. Thanks very much for sharing. Today we take the Internet for granted. It could have been very different. On 3/31/2024 12:19 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: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, -- jra
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