[ih] More sad news

[Dan Cross]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM vinton cerf via Internet-history
<internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> wow, on a full stomach....

Were they though, after all of that? :-)

        - Dan C.

> v
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > ;-)  lol
> >
> > Well, if you remember the night of the Birds of Feather session was
> > relatively early. Louis had arranged a great restaurant in the Old City.
> >
> > Dinner had been arranged a little earlier than civilized so we could be
> > back for evening sessions.  But Louis had us well-organized:  With
> > precisely the right number of taxis outside the hotel at the appointed
> > hour, off we went! We would troop into the restaurant, settle into 3 or 4
> > big tables, somehow order dinner around the on-going discussion of what we
> > had heard that day. Conversations were just winding down from a wonderful
> > dessert, when Louis would suddenly appear, announcing it was time to go.
> > (Timing is everything!) Taxis were waiting outside. We piled in again, to
> > head back for the evening ‘birds of a feather’ sessions!
> >
> >
> >
> > This is especially vivid for me, because it didn’t end so simply. Somehow
> > Grossman and I happened to pile Louis’s cab with either the craziest or
> > most competent driver in Quebec. Louis must have told them time was of the
> > essence. Our cabbie was whipping through the narrow streets of the Old City
> > shifting frantically at every turn, then speeding out the Grande Allée,
> > through the old wall of the city at a high speed. Ahead of us was a red
> > light, the driver momentarily let up on the gas, clearly to take his place
> > in the line of cars waiting for the light. *NO*!! it must have been to
> > assess the situation, because he tromped on the gas again as he pulled into
> > the left lane *(wha!) *and headed right for the on-coming traffic! *(OMG!
> > We are about to die!)* At the last possible second, the light turned
> > green and at precisely that instant, we turned left! With us howling with
> > laughter. A couple more right turns and we were at the front door of the
> > hotel!  ;-)
> >
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2024, at 17:15, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I gotta hear about the taxi ride!
> > v
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Where Louis and Andre were in their element finding restaurants was the
> >> 4th Data Comm Symposium in Quebec City.  Every night was a new delight!  I
> >> remember walking back to the hotel one night, waiting for a traffic light,
> >> some local Quebecois were making derogatory comments about us in French,
> >> and Louis or Andre shocked them by shutting them down in French.  ;-)
> >>
> >> And then there was the taxi ride back for the Birds of a Feather session,
> >> . . . but that is another story.
> >>
> >> On Jan 20, 2024, at 16:08, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks so much for drawing our attention to this notable departure. I
> >> knew Andre well in the 1970s and I seem to recall a particularly
> >> significant networking working around 1975 in Santa Monica at which Andre
> >> was especially active. He and I shared an interest in Petri nets - which I
> >> used in my Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA. I also seem to recall that he and
> >> Louis Pouzin conspired at a SIGCOMM (?) meeting in Montreal (?) to find a
> >> good French restaurant. They queried locals on their restaurant
> >> recommendations and rank ordered them based on their wine suggestions.
> >> Definitely one of the good guys.
> >>
> >> v
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was notified this morning of the passing of André Danthine, at the
> >>> University of Liege, a long time network researcher and member of the
> >>> original network traveling circus, as they called it.  ;-)
> >>>
> >>> It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of Prof.
> >>> André Danthine this January 18th, at the age of 91.
> >>>
> >>> André was an electromechanical engineer (1959) from the University of
> >>> Liège, Belgium, and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT
> >>> (1961). After a few years spent in industry, he started his academic career
> >>> in 1967 at the University of Liège, holding the chair in automatic control.
> >>> In 1972, after witnessing the first public Arpanet demonstration, he
> >>> launched the research group in Computer Networking at the University of
> >>> Liège, and connected to the Internet pioneers Louis Pouzin, Vint Cerf and
> >>> Bob Metcalfe, among others. In 1978 he organized in Liège the first
> >>> conference on Computer Network Protocols, which became the IFIP WG 6.1 PSTV
> >>> conference in 1981. In 1983, he was the coordinator of one of the first 13
> >>> European ESPRIT projects. He retired on September 30, 1997, and in 2000 he
> >>> received the ACM SIGCOMM award for "Basic contributions to protocol design
> >>> and modeling, and for leadership in the development of computer networking
> >>> in Europe".
> >>>
> >>> André was an active member of our scientific community through his
> >>> involvement in conferences and international research projects. Within IFIP
> >>> he chaired TC6 from 1980 to 1985, and was the Belgian TC6 representative
> >>> until 2004. He was also an early member of IFIP WG6.1 and IFIP WG6.2.
> >>>
> >>> He had a strong, enthusiastic and endearing personality, and left his
> >>> mark on generations of students and numerous researchers, including me as
> >>> he was my PhD advisor and an inspiring leader at the beginning of my
> >>> career. I owe him a lot, and I will miss him.
> >>>
> >>> More details about his career can be found in the interview he gave to
> >>> Andrew L. Russell in 2012:
> >>>
> >>> https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/162412/oh428ad.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
> >>>
> >>> If you wish to express condolences, you can use the following link (in
> >>> French):
> >>>
> >>> https://www.dansnospensees.be/avis-de-deces/deces-detail/18-01-2024/andre-danthine
> >>>
> >>> Take care,
> >>> John Day
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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