IP: Re: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:09:32 -0500 (EST)
> From: <ronda () panix com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on
>
> It is indeed very sad to hear of this great loss to the networking
> community.
>
> I wanted to add another important contribution of Mike's to the development
> of the Internet. He created and moderated the ARPANET TCP/IP Digest which
> helped in making the cutover from NCP to TCP/IP on the ARPANET in January
> 1983. The TCP/IP Digest provided a forum in which to discuss the
> problems that those who were to do the cutover identified so they
> could be solved.
>
> The cutover set the basis for the creation of the Internet as a
> metanetwork of diverse networks.
>
> After the cutover, the ARPANET was split into MILNET, an operational
> network for the DoD, and the ARPANET, a research network.
>
> These two different networks were able to communicate via tcp/ip
> communicate using TCP/IP. And that is some of the basis of the
> Internet as we know it today.
>
> A while ago, I wrote a paper about the role the TCP/IP Digest played in
> the cutover online. The URL is
>
>         http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/tcpdraft.txt
>
> In the research I have done about the early ARPANET mailing lists,
> Mike's role in contributing to the networking and UNIX
> communities stands out. His efforts helped to connect these
> two pioneering communities. He will indeed be missed.
>
> Ronda
> ronda () panix com
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~netbook
> http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers



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