Re: Dave Mills has passed away

Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 07 March 2024 14:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: Dave Mills has passed away
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:29:20 -0500
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Episode 212 of the podcast "the memory palace" is about Dave, NTP and their pervasive and largely invisible impact on the Internet and our everyday lives.  "The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time", by Nate Hopper in The New Yorker (9/30/22), is an interesting read about Dave and the history of NTP.

Apologies if these pointers have already been mentioned here or are otherwise well-known...

- Ralph

 
> On Jan 19, 2024, at 12:11 PM, Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> wrote:
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> Sad news.
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> Sent from a mobile device; please excuse typos.
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>> From: vinton cerf <vgcerf@gmail.com>
>> Date: January 19, 2024 at 03:39:37 GMT+2
>> To: Andrew Sullivan <sullivan@isoc.org>
>> Cc: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>, John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>, Hans-Werner Braun <hwb@ucsd.edu>, Dan Lynch <dan@lynch.com>, Stephen Kent <stkent@verizon.net>
>> Subject: Dave Mills has passed away
>> 
>> Please relay to IAB, IETF, IRTF and Hall of Fame
>> 
>> His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet. Network Time Protocol, the Fuzzball routers of the early NSFNET, INARG taskforce lead, COMSAT Labs and University of Delaware and so much more. 
>> 
>> vint
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