[H-GEN] ISOC Mourns the Death of Jon Postel (fwd)

David Wood dwood at plugged.net.au
Thu Oct 22 21:41:10 EDT 1998


Raymond Smith wrote:
> 
> Jon Postel was the academic who ran the Internet Asigned Numbers Authority
> (http://www.iana.org) which is responsible for maintaining the various
> numbering schemes of the internet protocols.

You might remember him even more for writing RFC 821 (SMTP).

Cheers,
Dave
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