[ih] EUnet and "Global Internet Services"

[Brian E Carpenter]

I certainly never came across Eric Bach in my own contacts with EUnet people. The only Eric Bach in our world that I can find is/was a cryptography expert, who worked with Steve Bellovin and others in the old days:

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bach/bach.html

e.g.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/part1/

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 23-Jan-23 07:08, Johan Helsingius via Internet-history wrote:
> On 22/01/2023 18:43, kilnam chon wrote:
>>      Any idea who these guys are?
>>   Teus Hagen and Daniel Karrenburg in Netherland who later set up RIPE NCC.
> 
> Thanks, but I meant the people behind the current eunet.com site and
> "Global Internet Services".
> 
> Interestingly, in their "About" page that has the short history of
> EUnet, they say "Founded by group of young software and network
> pioneers, led by Eric Bach, Teus Hagen, Peter Collinson, Julf
> Helsingius, Daniel Karrenberg, Luc De Vos, Björn Eriksen,
> Piet Beertema, Keld Simonsen and Glenn Kowack.". OK, I know
> who Julf Helsingius is :), While I know/knew and worked with
> Teus, PC, Daniel, Luc, Björn, Piet, Keld and Glenn, I have never
> heard of Eric Bach, and it was pointed out to me that the page source
> has "<meta name="author" content="Eric Bach">".
> 
>       Julf