-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: SRI's Dan Lynch dies Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:19:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Dan Lynch, one of the key people involved in building the Internet and ARPANET before it, has died. Dan was director of computing facilities at SRI International, where ARPANET node #2 was located and he worked on development of TCP/IP, and where the first packets were received from our site at UCLA node #1 to SRI, and later at USC-ISI led the team that made the transition from the original ARPANET NCP protocols to TCP/IP for the Internet. And much more. Peace. -L He was well written up across the web, but here's a 2021 piece for those who aren't as familiar with his background: https://www.internethalloffame.org/2021/04/19/dan-lynchs-love-brilliant-comp... And his IHoF induction speech: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dan-lynch-ihof-2019-speech/ I would note his age here, as obits usually do, but it seems unusually difficult to learn. Happy landings, Mr Lynch. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylinkjra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associateshttp://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274