Sally will be missed. Jim On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dave Täht wrote: > I'd always wanted to meet her. RIP. > > ----- Forwarded message from Craig Partridge ----- > > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:47:29 -0600 > From: Craig Partridge > To: internet history > Subject: [ih] Sally Floyd has died > > Just saw a post from Eddie Kohler that Sally Floyd has died. > > She packed a huge number of achievements into a relatively short career in > networking (less than 20 years from PhD to retirement). She developed RED > for congestion control with Van Jacobson, identified the issues in Poisson > modeling with Vern Paxson, developed TCP SACK, to name a few of her > important contributions. At one point (and perhaps still) she was one of > the top 10 cited women in computing. I think she won almost every award > the communications field could give. > > She was also a great colleague. I got to work somewhat closely with her on > the End-to-End Task Force for many years. She had a knack for presenting > stunning insights quietly and articulately, which made the insights all the > more stunning. > > Our world is a bit smaller. > > Craig > > > > -- > ***** > Craig Partridge's email account for professional society activities and > mailing lists. > > _______ > internet-history mailing list > internet-history@postel.org > http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history > Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance. > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > My email server only sends and accepts starttls encrypted mail in transit. > One benefit - it stops all spams thus far, cold. If you are not encrypting > by default you are not going to get my mail or I, yours. > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat >