Well, I hope we should have Dave's nomination for Jonathan B. Postel Service Award ready, soon. For starters, at least. All the best, Frank Frantisek (Frank) Borsik *In loving memory of Dave Täht: *1965-2025 https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 iMessage, mobile: +420775230885 Skype: casioa5302ca frantisek.borsik@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM Michiel Leenaars via Starlink < starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > Hi David, > > >2) I was thinking about how we could get Dave recognized for his > contributions. Like other unsung heroes, Dave didn't work for BBN or some > other moneyed entity who would commission a book or a memorial. (BBN paid > Katie Hafner to write the text that later turned into her book "When > Wizards Stay Up Late", which oddly only talked about the ARPANET/Internet > pioneers who worked for BBN, omitting many of my Internet colleagues.) > Dave wasn't the kind of guy that gets Awards from the Computer History > Museum or the ACM or IEEE. He wasn't beloved at IETF or ISOC that I know > of. He's in the category of folks like Noel Chiappa or Bram Cohen or > Richard Stallman or Aaron Swartz - people I think really changed the way we > think about computing and internetworking, but who won't be in the official > histories. > > We just missed the deadline for the Internet Hall of Fame by a few days: > > > https://www.internethalloffame.org/2025/01/20/the-internet-hall-of-fame-2025-nominations-are-now-open/ > > (which features Richard Stallman and Aaron Schwartz already, to be fair) > > But perhaps someone has nominated him already. > > Best, > Michiel > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink >