He played a prominent role in the New Yorker's article on NTP a year and a half ago: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-k

He played a prominent role in the New Yorker's article on NTP a year and a half ago: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thor... There was some discussion of the difficulty of transitioning BDFLs.