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Jonathan B. Postel
Service Award
Presented by the Internet Society
Jonathan B. Postel
1943 – 1998
• Original Steward of Internet
Numbers
• RFC Editor 1969 to 1998
• Executive Director and Founder,
Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA)
• Trustee of the Internet Society
and very first Member
For more about Jon and his contributions:
http://www.isoc.org/postel/index.shtml
2007 Postel Service Award
Selection Committee
•Dan Lynch - Postel Award Committee Chair
•Dave Clark, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
•Jun Murai, Professor, Keio University, Tokyo Japan
and WIDE Project representative. Postel Awardee in 2005
• Peter Kirstein, Professor, Dept of Computer Science,
University College London. Postel Awardee in 2003
Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Criteria
The award is presented to an individual who has made
outstanding contributions in service to the data communications
community.
… to honor an individual who has provided similar [to Jon
Postel] sustained and substantial technical contributions,
service to the community, and leadership.
… with respect to leadership, the committee places particular
emphasis on candidates who have supported and enabled
others in addition to their own specific actions.
Jonathan B. Postel
Service Award
Dr. Nii Quaynor
“For his vision and
pioneering work that
helped countless
others to spread the
Internet across Africa.”
Dr. Nii Quaynor
• Established the first Internet Svc. in W. Africa in 1993
• Founding Chair of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry
• Convener- African N/W Ops Group (AfNOG) since 2000
• Est’d. CS dept. Univ. of Cape Coast, Ghana -1979
• PhD in CS from SUNY Stony Brook 1977
• Digital Equipment Corporation 1977 - 1992
• Currently Chairman of NCS Ghana.COM
• Professor of CS at Univ. of Cape-Coast, Ghana.