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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.