[ih] Dan Lynch has passed away

[Craig Partridge]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 1:45 PM Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Dan was a great person.
>
> ...
> In Monterey, at one of the early TCP/IP Interoperability gatherings -
> around 1987 - I remember overhearing Dan and Craig P. having lunch and
> discussing network control and management.  From that came the push to
> develop protocols like SNMP (and HEMS and CMOT) and instrumentation MIBs.


That kind of interaction is what I remember best about Dan.  Somehow,
whenever we were in the same town, he and I usually managed to find a few
minutes (or in rare cases, a meal) for a quiet discussion.  Usually Dan
helping (mentoring) me -- I'd see a technical challenge or issue and be
trying to figure out how to get it fixed.  Dan would invariably have wisdom
to impart and encouragement too.

I like to think I sometimes returned the favor.  At the 2nd Monterrey
conference, Dan was trying to figure out a better name for his
workshop/conference and was running some names past me.  I liked one of
them and so, as we parted, I said "See you at InterOp!"

Craig