I attended Bernard's funeral and was one of the pallbearers. I also passed on to the family many quotes from this thread as condolences from IETF colleagues, and his wife appreciated getting those from all of you. I met Bernard at IETF about 1995 where we were both working in the multicast backbone deployment (MBoneD) working group, and we began collaborating on an inventory of multicast debugging tools and writing them up in a troubleshooting guide. I was then at Merit Network and he was at MSN. I enjoyed working with him and Bernard was the one who recruited me to move to Washington state where I have lived since 1998 and raised my family. Bernard and I continued collaborating on various standards across the years. He served on the Internet Architecture Board twice, for a total of 8 years. He and I served on the board together for 5 of those years and so we worked closely together during those times. The thing I enjoyed the most during my years on the IAB was the work on documenting what makes for a successful technology. He and I worked together to create what became RFC 5218, with input from the rest of the IAB and the community at large. It was truly a joy to work with him on that project. Bernard had a Ph.D. and an MBA and his ability to analyze case studies and why a supposedly inferior technology became the dominant one, was unparalleled and he drew upon work he'd done in authoring two books before then. Microsoft once hosted the IETF meeting, doing so in Orlando in March 2013. Bernard gave the host presentation about it and I remembering him saying in that presentation that people asked why Microsoft was hosting the conference in Orlando rather than Seattle. Bernard said, "Well, back then we'd looked at the weather report for this week." He put up a slide that had days for Monday through Friday. He continued, "Seattle: rain, rain, rain, rain, rain", and then "Orlando: sun, sun, sun, sun, sun. Any questions?" The entire audience got a good laugh, and sure enough, that weather report was 100% accurate that week. I always enjoyed working with and talking to Bernard and sometimes we would just get together to talk about technology and share ideas and brainstorm together. Twice in the last two weeks (just before and just after he passed), I was in open source community meetings to discuss the relationship of our RFC on protocol success. I was able to share a bit about Bernard's work with others in his memory. I will miss working with him, but will always have fond memories and his legacy will live on through his work. Dave Thaler
