Jon Postel
<person> (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the
Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental
standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long
as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA.
He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted
his passing in RFC 2468.
(1998-10-21)
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