Jon Postel, the "father" of the internet, only worked for one private company in his career, and it was directly for this Rodney Joffe

Of course Postel died the day ICANN went live in Oct 1998...

And Joffe's top patent ... is shared with another guy, Thomas Obenhuber, who died in a one-car accident ending in a fire in 2003. Most search results regarding his death are non-functional due to 404 or paywalls.

Joffe's company only had one real competitor,... the algorithm at Akami, developed by Danny Lewin, first person to die in 911.

Good chance the tech espionage of the Los Angeles area in the 1970s and early 1980s is what brought Joffe to the USA, they were (allegedly) shipping not just mainframe and minicomputers illegally out of the country, but also chip fabrication (allegedly) - this actually connects to the Brendon OConnell thesis of tech espionage to Israel for decades.

All credit to this channel who is going to do a show on this tomorrow.