[ih] Mike Karels has died

[Greg Skinner]

On Jun 4, 2024, at 12:18 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Mike Karels died on Sunday.  I don’t have any details other than:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/BSDCan/permalink/10159552565206372/
> https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels
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> Mike was deeply involved in the Berkeley BSD releases as I recall, after he
> inherited the TCP/IP implementation for Unix from Bill Joy (am I
> remembering that correctly?).
> 
> RIP
> v

Very sorry to hear this.  Mike's assistance with the BSD Unix implementation of the SRI network reconstitution protocol [1] was very helpful. [2] I remember the day Zaw-Sing Su and I drove up to Berkeley to meet with him.

--gregbo

[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA184755.pdf
[2] https://www.funet.fi/pub/netinfo/NSFNET/InternetMonthlyReport/IMR86-04.TXT (see Jim Mathis' SRI entry)