RFC editor and Internet pioneer Jon Postel was based at ISI until his death in 1998.

ICANN was established in California due to the presence of Jon Postel, who was a founder of ICANN and was set to be its first CTO prior to his unexpected death.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work.

In 2012, Postel was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, and also performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, and worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

SMTP was published as RFC 788 in November 1981, also by Postel.

Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) of the University of Southern California ( USC ), under a contract USC / ISI had with the United States Department of Defense, until ICANN was created to assume the responsibility under a United States Department of Commerce contract.

IANA was established informally as a reference to various technical functions for the ARPANET, that Jon Postel and Joyce K. Reynolds performed at UCLA and at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.

The first reference to the name " IANA " in the RFC series is in RFC 1060, published in 1990 by Postel and Reynolds at USC-ISI, but the function, and the term, was well established long before that ; RFC 1174 says that " Throughout its entire history, the Internet system has employed a central Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA )...", and RFC 1060 lists a long series of earlier editions of itself, starting with RFC 349.

In January 1998, Postel was threatened by US Presidential science advisor Ira Magaziner with the statement " You'll never work on the Internet again " after Postel collaborated with root server operators to reduce Network Solutions ' influence, which had undermined IANA's authority over the root zone.

The provincial road to Eindhoven and the road to Postel was hardened and a steam tram railway was manufactured.

Progress, however, was also menacing and inhumane, Postel notes.

Its research centers have played a major role in development of multiple technologies, including early development of the Internet when USC researcher Jonathan Postel was an editor of communications-protocol for the fledgling internet, also known as ARPANET.

Guillaume Postel ( March 25, 1510 – September 6, 1581 ) was a French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist.

Postel was adept at Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac and other Semitic languages, as well as the Classical languages of Ancient Greek and Latin, and soon came to the attention of the French court.

Postel was also apparently assigned to gather interesting Eastern manuscripts for the royal library, today housed in the collection of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Postel was also a relentless advocate for the unification of all Christian churches, a common concern during the period of the Reformation, and remarkably tolerant of other faiths during a time when such tolerance was unusual.

From 1969 until 1998, Jon Postel served as the RFC editor.

On March 26, 1972, Vint Cerf and Jon Postel at UCLA called for establishing a socket number catalog in RFC 322.

Jon Postel fulfilled the role of manager of IANA, in addition to his role as the RFC Editor, until his death in 1998.

This RFC, documented the Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages that PDN mail used and was published by the RFC editor, Jon Postel that same year.

* J. Postel and J. Reynolds, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over IEEE 802 Networks, RFC 1042

The Character Generator Protocol ( CHARGEN ) is a service of the Internet Protocol Suite defined in RFC 864 in 1983 by Jon Postel.

Jon Postel became the editor of the new series, in addition to his existing role of administering the long-standing RFC series.

On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional root nameservers on his own authority and instructed them to change the root zone server from then SAIC subsidiary Network Solutions ( NSI )' s A. ROOT-SERVERS. NET ( 198. 41. 0. 4 ) to IANA's DNSROOT. IANA. ORG ( 198. 32. 1. 98 ).

Jon Postel managed the IANA function from its inception on the ARPANET until his death in October 1998.

In Linguarum Duodecim Characteribus Differentium Alphabetum Introductio ( An Introduction to the Alphabetic Characters of Twelve Different Languages ), published in 1538, Postel became the first scholar to recognize the inscriptions on Judean coins from the period of the Great Jewish Revolt as Hebrew written in the ancient " Samaritan " characters.

The. ie domain was managed by University College Dublin since its delegation from Jon Postel in 1989, until the creation of IE Domain Registry ( IEDR ) in 2000 ; the university is still the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) Sponsoring Organisation.

In 2009, the Internet Society awarded CSNET its prestigious Jon Postel award, recognizing its key role in bridging from the ARPANET to NSFNET.

At the request of Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System in 1983 and wrote the first implementation.

Cerf also went to Van Nuys High School along with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker ; he wrote the former's obituary.

Postel wrote up a draft on IANA and the creation of new top level domains.

The principle is also known as Postel's law, after Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who wrote in an early specification of the Transmission Control Protocol that:

Postel served on the Internet Architecture Board and its predecessors for many years.

After discussions with Jon Postel, IANA, it was realized that a set of necessary registration conditions would require to be met, including the provision of a local contact persons details.

Poblacion, it also erected the Magdalen Hospital which was run by the Sisters of Julie Postel.

The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute.

Map of the Internet, created by Jon Postel in 1982

Together with Bob Braden, she received the 2006 Postel Award in recognition of her services to the Internet.

* October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer ( b. 1943 )

By his almost 30 years of " selfless service ", Postel created his de facto authority to manage key parts of the Internet infrastructure.

Paul V. Mockapetris ( born 1948 in Boston Massachusetts, USA ) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who, together with Jon Postel, is the inventor of the Internet Domain Name System ( DNS ).

At the July 2009 Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, the Internet Society recognized the pioneering contribution of CSNET by honoring it with the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award.

The domain name was originally allocated by Jon Postel, operator of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), to John Demco of the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) in 1988.

Jon Postel, a significant contributor to Internet standards, asserted that it would lead to chaos.