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Jonathan B. Postel Service Award

Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. Presented by the Internet Society. Jonathan B. Postel 1943 – 1998. Original Steward of Internet Numbers RFC Editor 1969 to 1998 Executive Director and Founder, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Trustee of the Internet Society and very first Member.

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Jonathan B. Postel Service Award

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  1. Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Presented by the Internet Society

  2. Jonathan B. Postel 1943 – 1998 • Original Steward of Internet Numbers • RFC Editor 1969 to 1998 • Executive Director and Founder, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) • Trustee of the Internet Society and very first Member For more about Jon and his contributions: http://www.isoc.org/postel/index.shtml

  3. 2007 Postel Service Award Selection Committee Dan Lynch - Postel Award Committee Chair Dave Clark, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Jun Murai, Professor, Keio University, Tokyo Japan and WIDE Project representative. Postel Awardee in 2005 Peter Kirstein, Professor, Dept of Computer Science, University College London. Postel Awardee in 2003

  4. Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Criteria The award is presented to an individual who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community. … to honor an individual who has provided similar [to Jon Postel] sustained and substantial technical contributions, service to the community, and leadership. … with respect to leadership, the committee places particular emphasis on candidates who have supported and enabled others in addition to their own specific actions.

  5. Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Dr. Nii Quaynor “For his vision and pioneering work that helped countless others to spread the Internet across Africa.”

  6. Dr. Nii Quaynor • Established the first Internet Svc. in W. Africa in 1993 • Founding Chair of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry • Convener- African N/W Ops Group (AfNOG) since 2000 • Est’d. CS dept. Univ. of Cape Coast, Ghana -1979 • PhD in CS from SUNY Stony Brook 1977 • Digital Equipment Corporation 1977 - 1992 • Currently Chairman of NCS Ghana.COM • Professor of CS at Univ. of Cape-Coast, Ghana.

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