Interview with Jeff Mogul

I’m sure I met Jeff Mogul at a USENIX systems conference, but I can’t remember which one. I had heard that Jeff was involved with the early Internet, but later than the groundbreaking work of Internet founders like Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. And although I occasionally talked with Jeff, I knew little about him.

I did suspect he could shed some light on what it was like to manage an Internet connection in the mid-’80s and to help shape parts of TCP/IP. Jeff had also worked for Digital Equipment Corporation’s (DEC) Western Research Lab. WRL was a small research lab in Palo Alto that produced a lot of pragmatic work and many papers too.