Sunday, February 20, 2005

Goobye Dr. postel

In memory of Dr. Jonathan B. Postel

The Internet will never be the same without you.

There are several memorial funds in Dr. Postel's honor. If you would like to contribute
to any of them, please click here.
For those of you who would like more information on Dr. Postel and his
accomplishments, please see:
http://www.iana.org/
http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/postel.home/activities.html
http://www.isoc.org/postel/condolences.shtml
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2468.txt
http://www.tnl.net/what/postel.shtml

Some of Dr. Postel's most important work, and the foundations of the Internet:

IP - the Internet Protocol
TCP - the Transmission Control Protocol
UDP - the User Datagram Protocol
ICMP - the Internet Control Message Protocol

Some news stories about Dr. Postel:
http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/postel18.htm
http://www.mercurycenter.com/nation/center/postel101898.htm
http://cnn.com/US/9810/18/obit.postel.01.ap/index.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/15683.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_196000/196487.stm

Yahoo! has a more complete listing of news stories:http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Jon_Postel

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