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AwardsJonathan B. Postel Service AwardAbout the AwardEach year, the Internet Society awards the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. This annual award is presented to an individual or an organization that has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community. The award includes a presentation crystal and a prize of US$20,000. The 2009 award was presented during the 75th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, on 29 July 2009, to CSNET. The award recognized the pioneering work of the four principle investigators that conceived and later led the building of CSNET, Peter J. Denning, David Farber, Anthony C. Hearn and Lawrence Landweber, and the U.S. National Science Foundation program officer and visionary responsible for encouraging and funding CSNET, Kent Curtis. 
Dave Crocker accepts 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service award on behalf of CSNET.The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award was established by the Internet Society to honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community. The award is focused on 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. The award is named for Dr. Jonathan B. Postel to recognize and commemorate the extraordinary stewardship exercised by Jon over the course of a thirty year career in networking. He served as the editor of the RFC series of notes from its inception in 1969 until 1998. He also served as the ARPANET "numbers Czar" and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority over the same period of time. He was a founding member of the Internet Architecture (nee Activities) Board and the first individual member of the Internet Society, where he also served as a Trustee. More information on Jon Postel.... |
