tonight the jon postel award established by the internet society will be handed over ( 57 ietf meeting)

its pretty easy to get in there, so anyone with interest : 19.30, hall d, austria center vienna

the chair is steve crocker, but i am not sure if he is here. hope so. he is the guy who initiated rfc, internet's way of establishing standards about host software and "associates the placement of the initial ARPANET sites at research institutions to the fact that the ARPANET was ground-breaking research.

'During the initial development of the Arpanet, there was simply a limit as to how far ahead anyone could see and manage. The IMPs were placed in cooperative ARPA R&D sites with the hope that these research sites would figure out how to exploit this new communication medium.'" (the history of arpa leading up to arpanet)