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Re: Fred Baker :-(

Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Fri, 20 June 2025 10:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: Fred Baker :-(
From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
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At the 33rd (or there about IETF), in Stockholm a few of us were  keen to improve on all this the nascent hypertext stuff, in particular around internationalisation. 

I am still thankful for that moment when Fred took hours of time (in what must have been a very busy period for him) to help us understand the available information and the interplay between the mailing lists, internet drafts and that what seemed `agreed' at the face to face meeting was almost the opposite of just about any other engineering standards organisations. And then, and at later moments, he helped me understand that there is `architecture' in these things too - and how essential that is for how the technical architecture of the Internet shapes.

Since - he has always been there, always helping, always doing wat was best for the Internet, always furthering it as a collective work of Art en Engineering.

He will be missed.

Dw.

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