Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [Cake] [Bloat] In loving memory of Dave Täht <3

[Vint Cerf]

He would be a good candidate for the Postel Award, don't you think?
v


On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >
> > 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.
>
> He did not fit in a typical corporate culture especially in his later
> years. He got a certain amount of respect at the
> IETF.
>


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