[chapter-delegates] A celebration for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn?

[Gene Gaines]

All,

Much discussion of problems on our list.  Heavy.

Perhaps time for a little fun?

I have a thought.

Two fellows named Vint and Bob are members of our local
Washington DC USA chapter of ISOC.

They wrote a college paper and came up with this thing called
TCP/IP. Has become rather widely used.

Both guys were principal organizers of ISOC and the IETF, have
been important drivers in the growth and success of both
organizations, and strong supporters of ISOC chapters.

Now they are getting an award.  A really important one.

>From the ACM website:

   The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Vinton G.
   Cerf and Robert E. Kahn the winners of the 2004 A.M. Turing
   Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for
   pioneering work on the design and implementation of the
   Internet's basic communications protocols.

I propose that ISOC chapters worldwide come together to hold
an appreciation evening for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.

They are members of our local DCISOC chapter, so I expect my
chapter will be pleased to organize the evening. I expect we
will be able to hold it at a location such as the U.S. Library
of Congress, or perhaps our principal national museum, the
Smithsonian Institution.

I think it best that all ISOC chapters join equally in
sponsoring the event to honor Vint and Bob. This should be an
international appreciation for Vint and Bob, not just our local
Washington chapter, not just a U.S. event.

Hopefully we can arrange to have the evening webcast, people
from chapters around the world participate and send their
congratulations via the Internet.

Could be great fun.

What do you think?

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com
Sterling, Virginia