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Article: Obituary: Jon Postel
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1998
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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 ...