[IP] Interop's 20th birthday is today
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From: Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 25, 2006 6:12:14 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Interop's 20th birthday is today
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Subject: it was 20 years ago today
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:58:22 -0700
From: Lenny Heymann <lheymann@xxxxxxx>
To: past-noc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Everyone raise a glass tonight: The TCP/IP Implementers Workshop was
held in
Monterey from Aug. 25 to 27 in 1986. This was Dan Lynch's first
event, and while
he didn't use the "I" word until 1987, we happily trace our roots
back to this
first gathering.
Many of you know - and lived - the history, but for fun, here's a
recent note
from Dan, recounting his first few events.
"The first thing I did along the lines of what became Interop was to
call and run a meeting in August of 86 in Monterey CA called the TCP/
IP Implementers Workshop where about 300 people convened by personal
invitation from me. It consisted of about 50 researchers and 250
implementers from about 100 organizations who were either building
TCP/IP stacks or using the initial offerings of the various vendors.
I only charged $100 per person to cover the food costs. Based on the
wild success of that 3 day event I called for a public conference
also in Monterey where about 700 people came and I charged $895 to
come. That was in March of 87. Then in Dec of 87 did the same thing
in DC (technically VA) and then in Sep of 88 held the first tradeshow
at the Santa Clara Convention Center where about 50 vendors and 5000
attendees came to see the stuff in action."
--
Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719
Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494
jms@xxxxxxxxx http://www.opus1.com/jms
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