Sure thing, I will. Thanks again for your previous comments. I’ll do my best to include them in the post.
"One can also read that Jon was the editor of the RFC, and may think
that Jon checked only the grammar or the format of the RFCs. Nothing
could be further from the truth, not that he did not check it, but in
addition, being the corporate memory, Jon had indicated many times to
authors that earlier work had treated the same subject, and that
their work would be improved by learning about that earlier work."
" Our foundation and infrastructure of standards was the secret weapon that won the war. Jon created it, using the RFC mechanism initiated by Steve Crocker. It was Jon who immediately realized their importance, and the need for someone to act as the curator, and volunteered.
The lightning speed with which Microsoft joined the Internet was not
possible without the quality of the existing standards that were so
well documented.
During the transition from ARPA, through the NSF, to the commercial
world there was a point in which the trivial funding required for the
smooth operation of editing and distributing the RFCs was in doubt.
At that time the prospect of not having funds to run this operation
was very real. Finally the problem was solved and the process
suffered no interruption.
What most of the involved agencies and managers did not know is that
there was never a danger of any interruption. Jon would have done it
even with no external funding. If they did not pay him to do it, he
would have paid them to let him do it. For him it was not a job, it
was labor of love."