[145718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 13 years ago today - October 16, 1998...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sun Oct 16 10:52:51 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5351310.5154.1318735258618.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:52:37 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:20 58PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rodney Joffe" <rjoffe@centergate.com>
>=20
>> Subject: 13 years ago today - October 16, 1998...
>> we lost Jon.
>>=20
>> It feels like just yesterday.
>>=20
>> http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html
>=20
> My path didn't cross Jon's much... but he was nice enough to reserve =
the
> really cool RFC number that graces my AFJ contribution from 1997 -- 3 =
or 4
> RFCs with higher numbers came out in March.
Ah, I'm not the only one he did that for. I asked if the IAB/IESG =
statement
on crypto could by RFC 1984. He told me that he never reserved RFC =
numbers --
but that coincidences could happen...
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
