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Steve Crocker and Vint Cerf had been best friends since attending Van Nuys High School in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.... While Cerf and Crocker were academic stars, Postel, who was twenty-five, had had a more checkered academic career. He had grown up in nearby Glendale and Sherman Oaks, and he too
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God, at least in the West, is often represented as a man with a flowing beard and sandals... if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel, a man who matches that description to a T. Mr. Postel's claim to cyber-divinity, besides his appearance, is that he is the chairman and, in effect, the
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During his lifetime he was referred to as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence; Postel himself noted that this "compliment" came with a barb, the suggestion that he should be replaced by a "professional," and responded with typical self-effacing matter-of-factness: "Of course,
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The significance of Jon Postel's contributions to building the Internet, both technical and personal, were such that a memorial recollection of his life and his work forms part of the core technical literature sequence of the Internet in the form of
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All of the above were part-time activities he assumed in conjunction with his primary position as Director of the Computer Networks Division, Division 7, of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.
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to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community." The first recipient of the award was Postel himself, posthumously. The award was created by
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Editor from 1969 until his death, and wrote and edited many important RFCs, including RFC 791, RFC 792 and RFC 793, which define the basic protocols of the
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where he earned his B.S. (1966) as well as his M.S. (1968) in Engineering. There he completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974, with
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Postel started work at UCLA on 23 December 1969 as a Postgraduate Research Engineer (I) where he was involved in early work on the
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with the statement "You'll never work on the Internet again" and was ordered to end the test which he did. Within a week, the US
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The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Postel. The award has been presented most years since 1999 by the
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sole member of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the organization that coordinates almost all Internet addresses.
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with NSI. Though usage of the Internet was not interrupted, Postel was threatened by US Presidential science advisor
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there isn’t any 'God of the Internet.' The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."
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on his own authority and instructed them to reconfigure their servers, changing the root zone server from then
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and its predecessors for many years. He was the Director of the names and number assignment clearinghouse, the
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On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional
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developed a second set of protocols for handling data between networks, which is now known as
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Another tribute, "Working with Jon: Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998" (
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On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
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A proposal to improve technical management of Internet names and addresses
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Postel worked with ARPANET until 24 August 1973 when he left to join
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had attended Van Nuys High School, where his grades were mediocre.
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who made many significant contributions to the development of the
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Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
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Jon Postel, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 55 after Heart Surgery
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American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (1943–1998)
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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On October 16, 1998, Postel died of complications from
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administrator. He also managed the Los Nettos Network.
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Postel in 1994 with map of Internet top-level domains
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Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
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Archived from 806:"USC Memorial Tribute for Jonathan B. Postel" 782:Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program 8: 2364:University of California, Los Angeles alumni 1093:. NTIA.org. January 30, 1998. Archived from 934:. USC Trojan Family Magazine. Archived from 2054: 2043: 1832: 1821: 1570: 1559: 1349: 1338: 1322: 1308: 1300: 468:, is named in his honor, as is the annual 139:Pioneer, Posthumous Recipient (2012), ACM 42: 31: 457:"I Remember IANA", written by Vint Cerf. 440:in Los Angeles. He was recovering from a 759:. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 75. 472:. In 2012, Postel was inducted into the 442:surgery to replace a leaking heart valve 567: 490:Perhaps his most famous legacy is from 1138: 376:DNS Root Authority test, U.S. response 1127:Cukier, Kenneth (February 16, 1998). 684:Hafner, Katie; Lyon, Matthew (1996). 96:University of California, Los Angeles 7: 1235:"Postel Service Award - Past awards" 1115:. University of Miami School of Law. 1048:. Interesting-People. 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Postel 1943–1998" 853:. June 5, 1997. Archived from 462:Information Sciences Institute 321:Information Sciences Institute 1: 1044:Farber, Dave (July 2, 2002). 1027:Cave, Damien (July 2, 2002). 543: – 1972 documentary film 235:Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 2359:American computer scientists 311:, which was being set up at 2354:Van Nuys High School alumni 1217:"Delegation Record for .JE" 1199:"Delegation Record for .GG" 1029:"It's time for ICANN to go" 965:. Oxford University Press. 755:Mueller, Milton L. (2009). 351:Internet Architecture Board 340:Instructions to RFC Authors 233:(RFC) document series, for 2385: 1924:Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder 309:Network Information Center 2053: 2042: 1831: 1820: 1569: 1558: 1348: 1337: 1076:The Daily News (Kentucky) 903:"In Memory of Jon Postel" 327:as a research scientist. 292:. Together with Cerf and 176: 147: 41: 990:"Taking the wrong root?" 241:(IANA) until his death. 84:Santa Monica, California 721:Banks, Michael (2008). 547:History of the Internet 336:Internet protocol suite 290:Internet protocol suite 265:as his thesis advisor. 2300:Hartmut Richard Glaser 1069:) (February 5, 1998). 847:"Jon Postel Biography" 385: 273: 1970:Karlheinz Brandenburg 1753:Douglas Van Houweling 1331:Internet Hall of Fame 780:Liska, Allan (2015). 474:Internet Hall of Fame 460:The Postel Center at 383: 349:Postel served on the 271: 183:Jonathan Bruce Postel 137:Internet Hall of Fame 2212:Kenneth Klingenstein 2048:Inductees since 2019 1789:Ermanno Pietrosemoli 1647:Anriette Esterhuysen 1456:Kanchana Kanchanasut 1385:Elizabeth J. Feinler 1179:on December 13, 2012 1109:Froomkin, A. Michael 1097:on February 7, 1998. 496:robustness principle 307:. 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