IP: Re: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:09:32 -0500 (EST)
>From: <ronda@panix.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: IP: With great sadness: Mike Muuss has passed on
>
>It is indeed very sad to hear of this great loss to the networking
>community.
>
>I wanted to add another important contribution of Mike's to the development
>of the Internet. He created and moderated the ARPANET TCP/IP Digest which
>helped in making the cutover from NCP to TCP/IP on the ARPANET in January
>1983. The TCP/IP Digest provided a forum in which to discuss the
>problems that those who were to do the cutover identified so they
>could be solved.
>
>The cutover set the basis for the creation of the Internet as a
>metanetwork of diverse networks.
>
>After the cutover, the ARPANET was split into MILNET, an operational
>network for the DoD, and the ARPANET, a research network.
>
>These two different networks were able to communicate via tcp/ip
>communicate using TCP/IP. And that is some of the basis of the
>Internet as we know it today.
>
>A while ago, I wrote a paper about the role the TCP/IP Digest played in
>the cutover online. The URL is
>
>         http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/tcpdraft.txt
>
>In the research I have done about the early ARPANET mailing lists,
>Mike's role in contributing to the networking and UNIX
>communities stands out. His efforts helped to connect these
>two pioneering communities. He will indeed be missed.
>
>Ronda
>ronda@panix.com
>
>http://www.columbia.edu/~netbook
>http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers



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