[time-nuts] More on Dave Mills

[Hal Murray]

The thread with Vint's initial message is here:
  https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html

Vint is collecting anecdotes here:
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XU6Fn5rFeJLO4mIBSa9e8V8BIDwafI0Lvlmi4gQwcm
E/edit>
Many good stories...


The tower of blocks image from a previous message came from an XKCD cartoon:
  Dependency
  https://xkcd.com/2347/
  https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
(Time sink warning if you get sucked in.)


Two threads on the IETF's NTP Working group mailing list:
  [Ntp] Dave Mills has passed away
  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ntp/QG4OERPE7Ewmq7JqCGb-4v-OGNA/
  [Ntp] FYI: Dave Mills has passed away
  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ntp/hlfpOfWchEXrCc6g5Q_zOkojGp0/


A video from a 2005 talk/class on routing:
  A Maze of Twisty, Turney Passages - Routing in the Internet Swamp by David 
L. Mills
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08jBmCvxkv4
Not much about time, but a good history lesson.  He did a lot more than NTP.


New Yorker profile:
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time
<https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keep
ing-the-internets-time>


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