Meeting of the Minds: IETF

Last night I got to meet some of the gentlement who are working on DKIM, an anti-phishing technology (in laymans terms, its more than that to the geeks, whom I’ll let explore via Google or some other search engine). I got to meet (in alphabetical order by last name) Eric Allman, Dave Crocker, Dennis Dayman, Jim Fenton, and others whose names frankly have escaped me at present due to absolute exhaustion. However, it was quite an honor. They were all need guys but I was warned to leave my politics at the door by my client who kindly suggested that self injury was far kinder to my body than bringing up politics in this group 😀

We had some Texas barbecue and had some fun. I ended up spending more time with my client’s kids because I wanted to know how they were doing. I used to work as an employee for the client and have known the kids for about 5 years, which is a smaller and smaller fraction of my life, but a pretty large fraction of his kids’ lives.

I’m tired now because I got 5 hours of sleep, 6 hours the night before and 4 the night before that. I’m ready for some rest, next month is looking good for that.