rfc791 coming up to 40 years ... what to do (remember, celebrate, ...?)

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Wanted to bring to the list this topic after mentioning it at the plenary.

I guess there are all type of memorable dates for the Internet and also more
traditional dates for the IETF as an organization, but if i look at the
Intersection of the organizations work product and its biggest success,
then this seem like a unique IETF event opportunity.

So, here is my idea what to do, nonwithstanding anything else of course:

Having trolled a bit on [e-mail], it is nice to see
that there are still a lot of folks around who made it happen back 40 years and
from then on. But alas, i am sure that will be different in 10 years.

So, one thing i think would be great to do and for which it might even
be the last big opportunity would be some form of e.g.: 1 day workshop
with interesting invited talks from contributors to that history.

Given how 
a) travel even without Corona for the witnesses of history may not
  always be a welcome option,
b) and given how i think that such a one day workshop
  would very easily have a target audience far exceeding the IETF community
  itself,
c) and finally given how such an event would best be well preserved for
  historic consumption,

this would actually be ideal to be had as a video event to be recorded.
Maybe/probably ISOC would be best to organize, but given how i think as
IETF'ers we would like to see focus put on technical payload, i'd hope
folks from IETF would drive to make something like this happen.

again.. just an idea. Happy to hear any opinion!

Cheers
    Toerless