Re: IETF @ 40

Michael StJohns <mstjohns@comcast.net> Sun, 25 January 2026 16:38 UTC

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Mike's still fine (at least within the last year).  Did a run for US 
Congress a while back.   Has been working with the Health Record Banking 
Alliance - I think still there - 
https://www.healthbanking.org/project-manager-bio.html.

Mike came back for a visit to the IETF at some other meeting in the last 
10 years or so... I don't remember which one.

Mike

On 1/18/2026 12:02, Lixia Zhang wrote:
> This msg got me to look up Mike Corrigan. I didn't find any recent info about Mike, but found RFC 1251 that I had long forgotten:
> "Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members". The composition of leadership has changed in fundamental ways as the Internet evolved over the decades.
>
> Lixia
>
>> On Jan 17, 2026, at 7:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> At IETF 65 in March 2006, in Dallas, there was a special event celebrating 20 years of IETF. It was built into the Tuesday night social event, but there were various short appearances including one by Mike Corrigan, and Dave Clark gave a short version of his famous "no Kings" talk. There might be video somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
>>
>> Regards/Ngā mihi
>>    Brian Carpenter
>>
>> On 18-Jan-26 15:47, Mike StJohns wrote:
>>> Hi Greg - I’m trying to remember exactly what happened, but I think it was about noon on the second day of GADS that Mike Corrigan showed up and explained that the IAB had declared that GADS was now INENG and INARC. Internet Engineering and Internet Architecture.  So today is probably the 40th anniversary of the beginning of what became the IETF.
>>> Bob? Lixia?
>>> Mike
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> On Jan 16, 2026, at 15:22, Greg Wood <ghwood@staff.ietf.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force. There’s a short blog post to mark the anniversary:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/
>>>>
>>>> -Greg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> —
>>>>
>>>> Greg Wood
>>>> Senior Director of Communications and Operations
>>>> IETF Administration LLC
>>>> ghwood@staff.ietf.org
>>>> +1-703-625-3917
>>>>

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