Jonathan B. Postel Service Award

The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Jon Postel. The award has been presented every year since 1999 by the Internet Society to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community."

The first recipient of the award was Jon Postel himself (posthumously).[1] The award was created by Vint Cerf as chairman of the Internet Society and announced in "I remember IANA" published as RFC 2468.[2]

Winners

References

  1. "Postel Service Award - Past awards". ISOC. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  2. Vint Cerf (October 1998). "I remember IANA". RFC 2468. Retrieved 2008-08-05.


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