Re: a moment of silence

[braden at ISI.EDU]

  *> From owner-ietf-outbound at ietf.org Thu Oct  7 06:00:37 1999
  *> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
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  *> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 04:50:45 -0700
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  *> october 16th is the first anniversary of the death of jon postel.  while it
  *> might be tempting to shut the net off for an hour in memoriam, it does not
  *> seem very responsible.
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  *> i intend to shut down my personal home/office site and all servers there for
  *> the day.  others may have their own ways of expressing respect and regret.
  *> 
  *> randy
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Randy,

Having known Jon pretty well, I doubt that he would have wanted things to
shut down.  But he would have liked the idea of (1) putting a little
humor into our Internet work, (2) striving harder to be precise and
logical in what we do, and (3) thinking a bit about how to be kind to
other people, local and remote.

Bob Braden