{"id":1095,"date":"2005-10-19T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/10\/19\/postel\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T03:30:00","slug":"postel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/10\/postel\/","title":{"rendered":"Postel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/10\/19#When:3:46:46PM\">Dave reminds us<\/a>\nthat\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/196487.stm\">Jon Postel died<\/a>\nseven years ago today.  Wow, seven.  <em>Update<\/em>; the anniversary of his death\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.byte.org\/blog\/_archives\/2005\/10\/20\/1312255.html\">was the 16th<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>I\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.ietf.org\/proceedings\/98aug\/attendees\/98aug-attendees.txt\">attended<\/a>\nJon&#8217;s last\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.ietf.org\/proceedings\/98aug\/index.html\">IETF meeting, in Chicago<\/a>,\nand I&#8217;ll never forget\nthe plenary discussion where the hot topic was Jon&#8217;s position as Director of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iana.org\">IANA<\/a> (this was back when it mattered &#8211; when it\nplayed the role currently played by\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icann.org\">ICANN<\/a>) and the importance of that\nposition.  During the back-and-forth, somebody pointed out that although everybody\ntrusts Jon, the position itself is arguably too powerful, and would we trust\neverybody who ever held that position.<\/p>\n\n<p>The reason I&#8217;ll never forget the meeting is because of something eerily\nprescient Vint Cerf (or at least I think it was him) said; &#8220;God forbid something\nto happen should Jon&#8221;.  Of course, Vint, as a good friend of Jon, knew that he&#8217;d\nbeen gravely ill in the past, but still.  A few weeks later, whammo.<\/p>\n\n<p>FWIW, I became a big fan of Postel over the approximately two years prior,\nas I spent a lot time studying his (IMO) greatest gift to the world, the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/\">RFC series<\/a>.\nIn fact,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~rohit\">Rohit<\/a>\npenned a wonderful\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~rohit\/IEEE-L7-Jon-NNTP.html\">tribute<\/a>\nto him grounded in the series, including a &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; list; a must\nread.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave reminds us that Jon Postel died seven years ago today. Wow, seven. Update; the anniversary of his death was the 16th. I attended Jon&#8217;s last IETF meeting, in Chicago, and I&#8217;ll never forget the plenary discussion where the hot topic was Jon&#8217;s position as Director of IANA (this was back when it mattered &#8211; [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}