[ih] Dave Mills has passed away

[Jack Haverty]

Yes.  A tiny bug in Dave's code turned the Internet not pink, but 
flaming red.  That incident was a primary motivation for getting 
Autonomous Systems and EGP into the Internet to protect the "core".
Jack

On 1/19/24 16:00, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
> Wasn't it one of Dave Mills' fuzzballs that became the target of all 
> Internet traffic during one failure of routing?
>
> (I've never felt that I have an adequate understanding of the early 
> routing failures and their effects.)
>
>         --karl--
>
> On 1/19/24 2:59 PM, Greg Skinner via Internet-history wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2024, at 5:35 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history 
>> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>> His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away 
>>> peacefully
>>> on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early 
>>> Internet.
>>> Network Time Protocol, the Fuzzball routers of the early NSFNET, INARG
>>> taskforce lead, COMSAT Labs and University of Delaware and so much 
>>> more.
>>>
>>> R.I.P.
>>> vint
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>> I wish I’d gotten to know him better.  I remember having a short 
>> conversation with him at the March 1987 Interop in Monterey about the 
>> SRI reconstruction protocol and some other things. But the 
>> discussions he had on the tcp-ip list with John Nagle, Van Jacobson, 
>> and some others regarding the Internet congestion problems occurring 
>> at the time really made an impression on me, personally and 
>> professionally.  [1]
>>
>> —gregbo
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://groups.google.com/g/mod.protocols.tcp-ip/c/KhQVHnVF3-Q/m/BB4mTSLkJFYJ

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