{"id":4616,"date":"2011-06-01T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:31:44","slug":"and-to-think-i-knew-him-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/community\/and-to-think-i-knew-him-when\/","title":{"rendered":"And to Think, I Knew Him When&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InfoWorld just gave their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/verisigns-matt-larson-wins-2011-infoworld-technology-leadership-award-nasdaq-vrsn-1521555.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2011 Technology Leadership Award<\/a>\u00a0to my old friend and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ask-mrdns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">frequent collaborator<\/a>, Matt. Matt&#8217;s worked tirelessly on the deployment of DNSSEC in some of the biggest and most important zones on the Internet, including the root zone, .com and .net &#8211; all of which, I&#8217;ll note, went off without a hitch. That doesn&#8217;t happen by chance. To think that when I met him, he was fresh out of Northwestern, interviewing for a job at HP.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Matt. It&#8217;s an honor you richly deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and dinner&#8217;s on me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InfoWorld just gave their\u00a02011 Technology Leadership Award\u00a0to my old friend and\u00a0frequent collaborator, Matt. Matt&#8217;s worked tirelessly on the deployment of DNSSEC in some of the biggest and most important zones on the Internet, including the root zone, .com and .net &#8211; all of which, I&#8217;ll note, went off without a hitch. 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