I had the opportunity to attend Bob's memorial at UWash a couple of weeks ago. Quite accomplished, both professionally and as a father. While I had known him via his MACE / Internet2 / Shibboleth work, I didn't know he also had some AFS involvement. Coming from Stanford, I shouldn't really be surprised.
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Derrick Brashear <sha...@openafs.org>wrote: > Just a note to let you know that we recently learned of the passing of > R L "Bob" Morgan. > > Bob was most recently known for his considerable work on identity > management, but before his employment at the University of Washington > worked > at Stanford and was involved in Kerberos and AFS during his time there. > Bob was > among the people who externally pushed the cause of open sourcing AFS, and > in > a conference call where it became clear that would actually happen, posed a > scenario which became a running joke for years when he suggested the > possibility of > providing support for this open source AFS as "R L Bob's AFS Company". > Bob will be sorely missed. > > You can read more here: > https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/rlbob/Home > > -- > Derrick > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-announce mailing list > openafs-annou...@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-announce >
