The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after

Jon Postel Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for bei ...

. The award has been presented most years since 1999 by the

Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...

to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community." The first recipient of the award was Jon Postel himself (posthumously). The award was created by

Vint Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that includ ...

as chairman of the

and announced in ''"I remember

IANA The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Interne ...

"'' published as RFC 2468.

Winners

* 2022 George Sadowsky * 2020 Onno W. Purbo * 2019 Alain Aina * 2018

Steven G. Huter Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

* 2017

Kimberly C. Claffy Kimberly C. "KC" Claffy is director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the University of California, San Diego. In 2017 she was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award and inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019. ...

* 2016 Kanchana Kanchanasut * 2015 Rob Blokzijl * 2014 Mahabir Pun * 2013 Elizabeth J. Feinler * 2012 Pierre Ouedraogo * 2011 Prof. Kilnam Chon * 2010 Dr. Jianping Wu * 2009 CSNET -

Peter J. Denning Peter James Denning (born January 6, 1942) is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which addressed thrashing in o ...

, David Farber, Anthony C. Hearn, and Lawrence Landweber * 2008

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* 2007 Nii Quaynor * 2006 Bob Braden and Joyce K. Reynolds * 2005 Jun Murai * 2004

Phill Gross Phill (usually a diminutive of Philip (name), Phillip) may refer to: *Phill Brown (born 1950), British audio engineer *Phill Calvert (born 1958), Australian rock drummer and producer, played in the influential post-punk band "The Birthday Party" *P ...

* 2003 Peter T. Kirstein * 2002

Stephen Wolff Stephen South Wolff is one of the many fathers of the Internet. He is mainly credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something that proved to have scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world. Dr. Wolff ...

* 2001 Daniel Karrenberg * 2000

Scott Bradner Scott Bradner is a senior figure in the area of Internet governance. He serves as the secretary to the Internet Society and was formerly a trustee. He is on the board of ARIN, the North American IP address registry. He has also held numerous sen ...

* 1999

(posthumously)

References

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Winners

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