Article: Obituary: Jon Postel

THE COMPUTER scientist Jon Postel was one of the "fathers of the Internet".

He created the Internet's address system, and administered it for 30 years as director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). He was also a director at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a division of the University of Southern California (USC) that conducts advanced research in the areas of computers and communications.

In recent months, Postel had been a key figure in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nine-member non-profit group that will be responsible for dispensing the five most popular domain names - .com, .org, .net, .gov and .edu. He is credited with ...

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