Jon Postel


Jon Postel

(person)(Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name isprominent on many of the fundamental standards on which theInternet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as longas anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he*was* IANA.

He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. Hisfriend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468.

Jon Postel

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