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Re: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Oct 16 02:20:37 2014
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:20:16 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 10/15/2014 23:42, Rodney Joffe wrote:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
>
I posted this to Facebook a while ago:
From NANOG
Subject: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
[Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still
is. But I mention it also because it points out that whereas we bang our
heads against soul-less monoliths, it seems, in the early days it was a
really small, close-knit group that brought this Internet thing out of
the labs and stood it up and made it play in remarkably productive ways.]
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