Re: The Jon Postel bashing

To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming at doorstep.unety.net>
Subject: Re: The Jon Postel bashing
From: Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 16:28:07 -0800
Cc: "ietf at ns.ietf.org" <ietf at ns.ietf.org>
Delivery-date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:54:24 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Feb 1998 16:20:30 CST." <01BD30BF.A5DAAB20@pc.unir.net>

In message <01BD30BF.A5DAAB20 at pc.unir.net>, Jim Fleming writes:

>On Tuesday, February 03, 1998 3:49 PM, braden at ISI.EDU wrote:
>@
>@Jon has always been parsimonious with his email communications,
>@particularly to large lists.  When he does make a statement, it always
>@reflects careful thought and is seldom wrong.
>@
>
>"seldom wrong ?"

Jon's been editing the RFC series for nearly 30 years and before the IETF
took over much of the technical vetting of RFCs about 8 years ago, Jon
did it all himself.

If you look at the RFC series to the point Jon handed over technical
evaluation to the IETF, they define a coherent protocol suite and pretty
much the one we have today.

That takes a lot of skill and means Jon better have seldom been wrong
(or if wrong, not by much).

Another vote for ending the JBP bashing.

Craig

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- RE: The Jon Postel bashing
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