[ih] Johnny Eriksson

[Vint Cerf]

thanks patrik - this helps to round out the man and his story. We all owe
him for his work (as we do you, as well).

v


On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:59 PM Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 28 Aug 2020, at 17:53, Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history wrote:
>
> > Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> writes:
> >
> >>> Another Scandinavian Internet pioneer also died earlier this year:
> >>> Johnny Eriksson. He helped build the Swedish TCP/IP networks in the
> >>> 1980s and 1990s.
> >
> >>
> >> please tell us more about Johnny.
> >
> > Johnny Eriksson worked at QZ in Stockholm, which provided centralized
> computing
> > services in the 70s and 80s.  He was also active in the student
> organization Stacken, which was a hotbed of PDP-10 machines and all sorts
> of ad-hoc networking.  Johnny was recuited to KTHNOC, the network operating
> center at Royal Institute of Technology, and the hub for SUNET, the Swedish
> University Network.  Later he went to SWIPNET, the first commercial IP
> network in Sweden.
> >
> > Johnny added TCP/IP to TOPS-10 for Stacken's dual KI10, called KICKI.
> >
> > Sources: the article "De byggde Internet i Sverige" (They build Internet
> in Sweden), and messages from Peter Löthberg.
>
> Johnny was a close friend of mine. One of the silent workers that was
> never vocal and because that was not really "known". Of course he was known
> "to us that worked with him", but... We worked together at KTH and also at
> SwipNet. And was friends off office as well.
>
> He has been to a number of IETF meetings, was definitely part of the
> community.
>
> Author of RFC 1926 ;-) which display some of his humour.
>
> He was the person, I claim, that connected NORDUNet to NSFNet (satellite
> link between us at KTH and JvNC) fall of 1988 which resulted in a working
> link on December 1 1988. I at that time "only" did run the DNS :-)
>
> Worked as described above, but went back to KTH to work with PDC Center
> for High Performance Computing <https://www.pdc.kth.se/> where he worked
> the day he unfortunately passed away far too early in a stroke.
>
> So many Internet people from all over at the memorial ceremony in
> Stockholm.
>
> I have pictures from that service and also when his urn was placed in the
> ground just a week ago, but I rather share pictures with Johnny being
> Johnny. As many of you have met him.
>
> The last few years he also started to not only play, but compete, in
> snooker.
>
> I miss him so much.
>
>    Patrik
>


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