Definitely :-)
On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 at 15:12, Vint Cerf <v...@google.com> wrote: > > He would be a good candidate for the Postel Award, don't you think? > v > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM Loganaden Velvindron <logana...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> > >> > 2) I was thinking about how we could get Dave recognized for his >> > contributions. Like other unsung heroes, Dave didn't work for BBN or some >> > other moneyed entity who would commission a book or a memorial. (BBN paid >> > Katie Hafner to write the text that later turned into her book "When >> > Wizards Stay Up Late", which oddly only talked about the ARPANET/Internet >> > pioneers who worked for BBN, omitting many of my Internet colleagues.) >> > Dave wasn't the kind of guy that gets Awards from the Computer History >> > Museum or the ACM or IEEE. He wasn't beloved at IETF or ISOC that I know >> > of. He's in the category of folks like Noel Chiappa or Bram Cohen or >> > Richard Stallman or Aaron Swartz - people I think really changed the way >> > we think about computing and internetworking, but who won't be in the >> > official histories. >> >> He did not fit in a typical corporate culture especially in his later >> years. He got a certain amount of respect at the >> IETF. > > > > -- > Please send any postal/overnight deliveries to: > Vint Cerf > Google, LLC > 1900 Reston Metro Plaza, 16th Floor > Reston, VA 20190 > +1 (571) 213 1346 > > > until further notice > > > _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
