[ih] Dan Lynch has passed away

[vinton cerf]

Jon's bakeoffs were scheduled, often at ISI, in the late 70's and early
80's during my time at ARPA.

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 8:29 AM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 3/31/2024 10:50 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history wrote:
> > asn't it originally called TCP Bake Off?
>
> Bake-offs were part of protocol development from the start of the
> Internet development.  (And earlier.)  These were narrow efforts to
> test/ensure interoperability for specific protocols.
>
> If I remember the details correctly...
>
> As the Internet gained adoption, in the latter 1980s, under the auspices
> of Heidi Heiden and the Defense Data Network, a small meeting was held
> to facilitate the growing TCP/IP adoption.  Think of it as a technology
> transfer  event, gathering Internet experts and Internet newbies. There
> were already some Internet-oriented companies active, but deep knowledge
> of implementation, deployment, and use of the protocols was still scarce.
>
> The event was quite successful.  Dan asked Heiden whether more were
> planned, was told no, and decided that having more events like that
> would be worth pursuing commercially.
>
>
> d/
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