[Chapter-delegates] Sad news - Peter Kirstein -the founder of the European Internet die

[Talgat Nurlybayev]

Peter was a wonderful person. In 2000s he put a lot of efforts to develop
Internet in Central Asia at whole, and in Kazakhstan, in particular.
He was very supportive and friendly. He organized first IPv6 training in
Kazakhstan in 2011 as a part of 6Deploy project.
We all will miss him.

RIP, Peter

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 2:08 PM Borka Jerman Blazic via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
> Peter Kirstein, a British computer scientist who was widely recognized as
> the father of the European internet, died on Wednesday at his home in
> London. He was 86.
>
> Peter Kirstein  was crucial scientist   for spreading f the TCP/IP
> protocols that underpin today’s internet (and gave Queen Elizabeth her own
> email address). Peter was one of the most hard working scientist in the
> year 1985-1991 within the COSINE project that developed the first TCP/IP
> backbone in Europe in December 1991. Peter fashioned his pivotal role in
> computer networking with the old-fashioned way: through human connections.
> In 1982, his collegial ties to American scientists working in the nascent
> field of computer networks led him to adopt their standards in his own
> London research lab and later set up the first Internet line between Europe
> (UK) and USA.
>
> We remember Peter through 25 years of collaboration within the EU
> Framework programs that started with the FP3 project: PASSWORD where the
> first software for digital signature and Public Key services were
> developed.  Our last cooperation was within the video-conferencing
> development project (Global-Plaza) in 2010. We all miss him and  his
> enthusiasm  and wisdom.
>
>
> In the name of ISOC.SI
>
> Borka Jerman Blažič
>
>
>
>
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> Networks Jožef Stefan Institute and Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana
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