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+Network Working Group                                          V. Cerf
+Request for Comments: 2468                                         MCI
+Category: Informational                                   October 1998
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+                            I REMEMBER IANA
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+                            October 17, 1998
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+Status of this Memo
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+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
+   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
+   memo is unlimited.
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+Copyright Notice
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+   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.
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+Remembrance
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+   A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took
+   place!
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+   Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the
+   tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a
+   cornucopia of networks.  Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless
+   stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become
+   the Internet.  Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the
+   identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all
+   the things in the networked universe.  And someone had to keep track
+   of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the
+   intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that
+   has continued unabated for 30 years.  That someone was Jonathan B.
+   Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer,
+   confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from
+   our midst.
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+   Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone.  Even as I write these words I cannot
+   quite grasp this stark fact.  We had almost lost him once before in
+   1991.  Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all.  But he had been
+   our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was
+   built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when
+   our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make
+   difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful
+   consideration was needed.  We will survive our loss and we will
+   remember.  He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to
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+   contemplate.  Steadfast service for decades, moving when others
+   seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex
+   minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles.
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+   Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San
+   Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles.  But we were in different
+   classes and I really didn't know him then.  Our real meeting came at
+   UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working
+   for Professor Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project.  Steve
+   Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team
+   and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the
+   ARPANET.  When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments
+   series, Jon became the instant editor.  When we needed to keep track
+   of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the
+   Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place.
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+   Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and
+   served continuously from its founding to the present.  He was the
+   FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he
+   and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms
+   and make payment first and Jon won.  He served as a trustee of the
+   Internet Society.  He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder
+   of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the
+   networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute.
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+   Jon loved the outdoors.  I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the
+   high Sierras around Yosemite.  Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our
+   resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA.  He was a private person but fully
+   capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in
+   a good engineering argument.  And he could be stubborn beyond all
+   expectation.  He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring
+   contest, I think.
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+   Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his
+   colleagues.  For me, he personified the words "selfless service".
+   For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return,
+   indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our
+   deepest appreciation.  It was particularly gratifying at the last
+   Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver
+   Medal of the International Telecommunications Union.  It is an award
+   generally reserved for Heads of State, but I can think of no one more
+   deserving of global recognition for his contributions.
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+   While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense
+   of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up
+   and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I
+   contemplate what Jon has wrought.  He leaves a legacy of edited
+   documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only
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+   the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well.  He
+   completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and
+   leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role.
+   His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective
+   consciousness.  "What would Jon have done?", we will think, as we
+   wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed
+   for so many years.
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+   There will almost surely be many memorials to Jon's monumental
+   service to the Internet Community.  As current chairman of the
+   Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jon's name to
+   recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B.
+   Postel Service Award, which will be awarded to Jon posthumously as
+   its first recipient.
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+   If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing
+   but to celebrate his life and his contributions.  He would remind us
+   that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the
+   responsibility and the opportunity to do our part.  I doubt that
+   anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a
+   measure of one man's astonishing contribution to a community he knew
+   and loved.
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+Security Considerations
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+   Security issues are not relevant to this Remembrance.
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+Author's Address
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+   Vinton G. Cerf
+   MCI
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+   EMail: vcerf@mci.net
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+Full Copyright Statement
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+   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.
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+   This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
+   others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
+   or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
+   and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
+   kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
+   included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
+   document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
+   the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
+   Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
+   developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
+   copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
+   followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
+   English.
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+   The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
+   revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
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+   This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
+   "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
+   TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
+   BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
+   HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+   MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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