[lbenes]

For anyone wondering who he was or his contributions:

> Manning has been working in the Internet industry since 1979 when he started working at Texas Instruments and helped in building its IP network. After which he joined Rice University and made SESQUINET. He played a significant role in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFnet regional networks to commercial networks.

> He worked on the COREN and CALREN-2 technical committees. At ISI he worked in the Routing Arbiter Project.

> Bill has been working with the the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer. He specfied the method to add NSAP support to the DNS.

https://icannwiki.org/Bill_Manning

[hanniabu]

It's sad that when you google him and you only get results for a sports executive.

[fanf2]

He was also a DNS root server operator for many years (he ran b.root-servers.net)

[dghughes]

Thanks for that.

I always feel bad seeing that someone has died and how important they were in computer science but it's the first time I've heard of them.