Jonathan B. Postel Service Award [SEP] named after
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).
The award was created by Vint Cerf as chairman of the Internet Society and announced in ""I remember IANA"" published as RFC 2468.
Winners.
Museum in Mountain View, California and after she retired from NASA in 1996 worked as a volunteer at the museum to organize the material.
She published a history of the NIC in 2010. In 2012, Feinler was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. In July, 2013 she received the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award "for her contributions to the early development and administration of the Internet through her leadership of the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET".
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Feinler