[AusNOG] tom koltai - in memorial

[Andrew Khoo]

i believe it was NANOG17 in Montreal October 1999.

you were then in Optus, Tom has just started ISP Ltd, and I was presenting
on "large scale distributed internet caching" just before i joined Akamai.

oddly enough, a picture surfaced at his memorial tonight from that event.
it was taken when we were locked in the hotel due to some riot happening
outside.







On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

> I looked long and hard this morning for the t-shirt he gave me in 1999
> at a peering meeting in the US. A kangaroo and an eagle.
>
> I remember him well and certainly as a colourful character in a
> colourful industry!
>
> It was a fun time.
>
> My sympathy to his family and friends.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Khoo <andrew at 6net.com.au> wrote:
> > [i apologise for the off-topic nature of this post, but there are many
> folk
> > on this list that have known Tom in the past]
> >
> > for folks that are long-in-the-tooth in this industry, you probably have
> > come across Tom Koltai sometime in the past.
> >
> > Tom is one of those people that are polarising - certainly i have met
> folks
> > at both ends of the spectrum that really love him, or hate him.
> >
> > i have had the opportunity to work with him in the late 90s, and it
> indeed
> > was the most challenging experience (people-wise) in my entire life.
> >
> > Tom did genuinely try his best to help this industry - many of his fights
> > against the big T were not public knowledge, but he famously (but
> > unsuccessfully) fought against both the T an T2 floats - arguing that the
> > tax-payers had already paid for the copper etc in the ground, and why
> should
> > we be offered shares to buy into something we already own!
> >
> > Tom was also instrumental in supporting exchange points in Australia on
> the
> > east coast, around the same time as WAIA was bringing up WAIX. Whilst
> some
> > folks de-cry the legacy of AUIX, there are lots of backroom stories on
> the
> > how & why things didn't work out the way they worked out.
> >
> > Tom passed away two weeks ago.
> >
> > An informal memorial to honour him will be held tomorrow (Thursday
> > 24-Mar-16) from 1800hrs at "The Club Room", Glenmore Hotel (96 Cumberland
> > St, The Rocks).
> >
> > All are welcome.
> >
> >
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>
> --
>
>
> Narelle
> narellec at gmail.com
>
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