Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958781/

Internet pioneer and Network Time Protocol (NTP) inventor Dave Mills has died, as reported by Vint Cerf:

His daughter, Leigh, just sent me the news that Dave passed away peacefully
on January 17, 2024. He was such an iconic element of the early Internet.
Network Time Protocol, the Fuzzball routers of the early NSFNET, INARG
taskforce lead, COMSAT Labs and University of Delaware and so much more.

More information about Mills can be found on his Wikipedia page.