[Mac_crypto] [Net_thinkers] Thank you Stuart Cheshire

[R. A. Hettinga]

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From: Kee Nethery <kee@kagi.com>
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Subject: [Net_thinkers] Thank you Stuart Cheshire
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:56:27 -0700

To Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@apple.com),

I was thinking we should send you a plaque thanking you for rescuing
the coolest part of AppleTalk, Name Binding Protocol, by creating
ZeroConf (aka Rendezvous).

For all you who do not know, ZeroConf is essentially a new and
improved AppleTalk NBP implemented via TCP. When he timelined the
introduction of ZeroConf at WWDC, the starting point was a
conversation on this mailing list.

When I broached this with Rich Brown, he suggested that a physical
plaque might be a burden to haul around from place to place,
especially if as was the plan, we got everyone who was involved in
the early days of AppleTalk to sign it. (He imagined you physically
hurting yourself trying to handle something cast in bronze with that
many signatures on it.)

So rather than risk personal injury to you, I decided to just thank
you in bits.

Thank you for creating ZeroConf and shepherding it through all the
politics required to make it a reality. AppleTalk is a wonderful
thing primarily because it is plug and play and the reason it is plug
and play is because of NBP. We all know that IP won the networking
protocol war but I think it is safe to say that we all lament the
passing of AppleTalk's ease of use.

It is my belief that ZeroConf is going to make IP as easy to use as
AppleTalk and by making this happen you personally will have made the
world a better place for the millions of people who will try to
connect to some local device via IP. With ZeroConf it will just
happen. Previously it would have required tech support issues and
complex instructions and lots of frustration.

So for myself and all the people who will interact with an IP network
in the future, thank you.

Kee Nethery
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