[Ntp] FYI: Dave Mills has passed away

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 19 January 2024 03:11 UTC

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 08:35:14PM -0500, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> 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.
> 
> R.I.P.
> vint
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