[141817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Joe Wood
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Whyte)
Sun Jun 12 00:58:01 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin2C5QeoW=NsPZK42zbkgE6L9k0Yg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:57:58 -0700
From: Scott Whyte <swhyte@gmail.com>
To: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 21:33, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> wrote:
> Joe Wood passed in his sleep Friday morning. =A0The only man I knew that =
had
> Juniper and Cisco logos tattooed on his forearms. =A0A true Internet Rock=
star
> who started at a legacy ISP in Seattle, moved to Flying Crocodile, and th=
en
> to design a fair chunk of Google's network.
He not only designed at Google: implemented, supported, and upgraded
as well, everything from optical systems to MPLS TE to routing
protocols. He was a famous night owl, and a huge help all those wee
AMs when I was oncall and needed more hands, because he was always
willing to pitch in.
> He was well on his way to
> starting his own CLEC when his young body gave out on him. He was one of =
the
> most honest and loving friends that I've had in my life and the most
> brilliant IP engineer I have known.
>
> Please drink a toast to him with vendor supplied beer.
I intend to have more than one toast to Joe, tomorrow in Denver. He
will be missed.
-Scott
