[ih] Dan Lynch has passed away

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

indeed at ISI in the 70's -- as yours truly recalls flying down from SRI
with an LSI-11 in a (checked luggage) HEAVY "foam padded brown box crate
with metal handles" thingy for one of them.

g

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 5:51 AM vinton cerf via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

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