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Network Working Group V.
Request for Comments: 2468
Category: Informational October 1998
I REMEMBER
October 17, 1998
Status of this
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
memo is unlimited
Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved
A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure
place
Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments,
tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged
cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an
stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to
the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols,
identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of
the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep
of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from
intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention
has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B
Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer
confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart
our midst
Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I
quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before
1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had
our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email
built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us
our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to
difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when
consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we
remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts
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contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when
seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a
minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles
Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the
Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in
classes and I really didn't know him then. Our real meeting came
UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students
for Professor Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project.
Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the
and led the development of the first host-host protocols for
ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for
series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep
of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be
Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place
Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board
served continuously from its founding to the present. He was
FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because
and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application
and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of
Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a
of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed
networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute
Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in
high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was
resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but
capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations
a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond
expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a
contest, I think
Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and
colleagues. For me, he personified the words "selfless service".
For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return
indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received
deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the
Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the
Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an
generally reserved for Heads of State, but I can think of no one
deserving of global recognition for his contributions
While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous
of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened
and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as
contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of
documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not
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the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well.
completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA
leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role
His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our
consciousness. "What would Jon have done?", we will think, as
wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well
for so many years
There will almost surely be many memorials to Jon's
service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of
Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jon's name
recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B
Postel Service Award, which will be awarded to Jon posthumously
its first recipient
If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his
but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind
that there is still much work to be done and that we now have
responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt
anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as
measure of one man's astonishing contribution to a community he
and loved
Security
Security issues are not relevant to this Remembrance
Author's
Vinton G.
EMail: vcerf@mci.
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Full Copyright
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved
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others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain
or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied,
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included on all such copies and derivative works. However,
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Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose
developing Internet standards in which case the procedures
copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must
followed, or as required to translate it into languages other
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