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Re: [Ntp] FYI: Dave Mills has passed away

Neta R S <neta.r.schiff@gmail.com> Tue, 23 January 2024 16:51 UTC

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From: Neta R S <neta.r.schiff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:51:09 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] FYI: Dave Mills has passed away
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Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to meet Dr. Mills,
but I deeply acknowledge his great contribution in designing NTP and
Internet synchronization as we know it.
R.I.P.
Neta


On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM Dave Hart <davehart@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 at 03:11, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> Indeed.  As much as Dr. Mills focused on time synchronization in the last
> few decades, he was an early implementor of internetworking in general.
> NTP was born on the PDP-11-based Fuzzball NSFNET routers but he was active
> in so much more.
>
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search_detail.php?page=All&author=Mills&pubstatus[]=Any&pub_date_type=any&sortkey=Number&sorting=ASC
>
> There are 28 mostly early RFCs with his name on them among the 36 returned
> by the above search.  Dr. Mills was generous with his time and sharp as a
> tack even as his vision loss crippled his participation in the last dozen
> years.  Screen readers and giant fonts on huge monitors carried him a few
> more years but he was hamstrung.  He was generous with his time mentoring
> me via telephone and screen-reader mangled email.  I am thankful for all
> his accomplishments.
>
> Dave Hart
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