[ih] Dan Lynch has passed away

[Karl Auerbach]

We also had bakeoffs at FTP Software's mill in North Andover, Mass.

     --karl--

On 4/1/24 5:50 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> Jon's bakeoffs were scheduled, often at ISI, in the late 70's and early
> 80's during my time at ARPA.
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> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 8:29 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On 3/31/2024 10:50 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history wrote:
>>> asn't it originally called TCP Bake Off?
>> Bake-offs were part of protocol development from the start of the
>> Internet development.  (And earlier.)  These were narrow efforts to
>> test/ensure interoperability for specific protocols.
>>
>> If I remember the details correctly...
>>
>> As the Internet gained adoption, in the latter 1980s, under the auspices
>> of Heidi Heiden and the Defense Data Network, a small meeting was held
>> to facilitate the growing TCP/IP adoption.  Think of it as a technology
>> transfer  event, gathering Internet experts and Internet newbies. There
>> were already some Internet-oriented companies active, but deep knowledge
>> of implementation, deployment, and use of the protocols was still scarce.
>>
>> The event was quite successful.  Dan asked Heiden whether more were
>> planned, was told no, and decided that having more events like that
>> would be worth pursuing commercially.
>>
>>
>> d/
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