 Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. Copyright 1994, USC) Jonathan Bruce Postel (/pə'stɛl/; 6 August 1943 ‒ 16 October 1998) made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. Download high resolution version (688x630, 76 KB)Picture of Jon Postel from http://www. ...
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ...
In internetworking and computer network engineering, Request for Comments (RFC) documents are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies. ...
The Internet Society or ISOC is an international organization that promotes Internet use and access. ...
The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Jon Postel. ...
Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ...
ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ...
Postel's Law
Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 793, which includes a Robustness Principle which is often quoted as "Postel's Law": "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" (often reworded as "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you receive"). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has a numbered series of Requests for Comments (RFCs) that define the protocols that make up the Internet. ...
Career Postel earned a B.S. and M.S. in engineering (in 1966 and 1968 respectively), and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1974, all from UCLA. Engineering is the application of scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ...
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Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...
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The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...
While at UCLA, he was involved in early work on the ARPANET; he later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, where he spent the rest of his career. ARPANET logical map, March 1977. ...
ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ...
The USC Student Union. ...
Postel was the RFC Editor from 1969 until his passing, and wrote and edited many important RFCs, including RFCs 0791-0793, which define the basic protocols of the Internet protocol suite, and RFC 2223. He himself wrote or co-authored more than 200 RFCs. The internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet and most commercial networks run. ...
Postel served on the Internet Architecture Board and its predecessors for many years. He was the Director of the names and number assignment clearinghouse, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), from its inception. He was the first member of the Internet Society, and was on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society. He was the original and long-time .us Top-Level Domain administrator. He also managed the Los Nettos Network. The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ...
For other uses of IANA, see IANA (disambiguation). ...
.us is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States of America, established in 1985. ...
A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any URL. For example, in the domain name wikipedia. ...
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. ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ...
On January 28, 1998, Postel, on his own authority, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional root servers and instructed them to change the root zone server from Network Solutions (NSI)'s A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. (198.41.0.4) to DNSROOT.IANA.ORG (198.32.1.98). The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus splitting control of Internet naming between IANA and the four remaining U.S. Government roots at NASA, the .MIL server, Ballistics Research Laboratory and NSI. He soon received a telephone call from Ira Magaziner, who instructed him to undo this change. Within a week, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued its "Green Paper" asserting its definitive authority over the Internet root, eventually leading to the creation of ICANN and effectively terminating any attempts by the International Council of Registrars to claim such authority for itself. January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Network Solutions, LLC.—a technology company founded in 1979—was the first registrar of domain names. ...
The US Army Ballistics Research Labatory is at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Maryland. ...
Ira Magaziner was an aide to President Clinton and later became his chief Internet policy advisor. ...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the Presidents principal adviser on telecommunications policies pertaining to the United States economic and technological advancement and to regulation of the telecommunications industry. ...
ICANN (pronounced I can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ...
Postel died of complications following heart valve replacement surgery in Los Angeles, on October 16, 1998. Grays Fig. ...
October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Legacy The significance of Jon Postel's contributions to building the internet, both technical and personal, were such that a memorial recollection of his life forms part of the core technical literature sequence of the Internet in the form of RFC 2468 "I Remember IANA", written by Vinton Cerf. (This is no trivial thing given that between 1969 and February 2002, only 3,240 RFCs were published.) Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related...
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See also - History of the Internet
- ARPANET
- Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing (1972 documentary w/Postel cameo)
The history of the Internet dates back to the early development of communication networks. ...
ARPANET logical map, March 1977. ...
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