Charles calls out the major reason the InterOp conferences were so useful
to so many. It is a shame there is nothing like this today in many domains
like IPv6 or Smart Home or others.
Thanks to Dan for his work to drive this kind of effort during the early
days of the commercial Internet.
On
Well said. Dan Lynch's requirement that vendor gear must interop on
the show floor was a big deal and required extra work to accomplish
compared to other "dog and pony" shows.
His ground rules for the Interop conferences had the effect of
ensuring that competent people showed up to set up and run
Dan lynch was our neighbor in Los Altos in the early 2000s. He was a lovely guy & became a great friend. He was a mentor and advisor on a number of ventures over the years and wouldn’t hesitate to offer his guidance when asked.rest in peace old buddy.Eric Litvin Sent from my iPhoneOn Apr 1,
Wow, I have not spoken to Dan Lynch in 8 years. He was brilliant!
Raise glass for Dan!
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Thanks for sharing this, too.Lynch was really underrated for what he did.
He basically made certain that people made their dreams work together, or at
least that is what I saw.
Too, when you asked any questions in the Internet’s early days, all the answers
eventually seemed to wind back
RIP Dan Lynch. It is worth adding that he was also the founder of the
Interop shows in the mid 80s which achieved a great deal in terms of
advancing TCP/IP adoption, and inter-operability testing was a big deal
back then when the future of TCP/IP was also not at all certain, as it
was in
I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Lynch, but I thought id add that from
other sources I am told he was 82 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/technology/daniel-c-lynch-dead.html
Thank you for sharing the news to this list. I’m sure he is and will be greatly
missed by those
>From Lauren Weinstein @ PRIVACY Digest:
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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
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