Re: The Jon Postel bashing

[Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft at CS.UCL.AC.UK>]

 >>> I'd like to join Braden's call to back off a little with the current
 >>> pastime of bashing Jon Postel.
 
 >>Agreed!!!

 >>Jon Postel is one of the great people of the internet.  I would hope that
 >>someday when there is a Nobel (or equivaent) prize for networking, that
 >>Jon receives it.
 
well, ACM is not Nobel, but it wasn't foudned on dynamite profits
either:-) (ok, so it was probably mostly ordinance computing in the
early days:-(

but the ACM SIGCOMM _did_ award Jon Postel its annual award for
contributions to the community in 1997. In recognition of many of the
things that have been noted here by Bob Braden, Craig Partridge and
others.

and I certainly concur that it is not only inappropriate to heap
opprobrium on ANYONE in this discussion, it is especially
inappropriate to slander such a constructive individual.

 regards

   jon