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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (1943–1998)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Jon Postel</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Jon_Postel_sitting_in_office_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="935" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1943-08-06</span>)</span>August 6, 1943<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Altadena,_California" title="Altadena, California">Altadena, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 16, 1998<span style="display:none">(1998-10-16)</span> (aged 55)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">BS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">MS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments">Request for Comment</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Robustness_principle" title="Robustness principle">Postel's Law</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Internet_Hall_of_Fame" title="Internet Hall of Fame">Internet Hall of Fame</a> Pioneer, Posthumous Recipient (2012), ACM <a href="/wiki/SIGCOMM_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGCOMM Award">SIGCOMM Award</a> (1997),<sup id="cite_ref-SIGCOMM97_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIGCOMM97-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ITU Silver Medal (1998),<sup id="cite_ref-ITU98_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ITU98-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ISOC Jonathan B. Postel Service Award (1999, posthumous)<sup id="cite_ref-ISOC99_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISOC99-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">Computer science</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dave_Farber" class="mw-redirect" title="Dave Farber">Dave Farber</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jonathan Bruce Postel</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span></span>/</a></span></span>; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American <a href="/wiki/Computer_scientist" title="Computer scientist">computer scientist</a> who made many significant contributions to the development of the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, particularly with respect to <a href="/wiki/Internet_Standard" title="Internet Standard">standards</a>. He is known principally for being the Editor of the <a href="/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments">Request for Comment</a> (RFC) document series, for <a href="/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol" title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">Simple Mail Transfer Protocol</a> (SMTP), and for administering the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority</a> (IANA) until his death. </p><p>During his lifetime he was referred to as the "god of the Internet"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for his comprehensive influence; Postel himself noted that this "compliment" came with a barb, the suggestion that he should be replaced by a "professional," and responded with typical self-effacing matter-of-factness: "Of course, there isn’t any 'God of the Internet.' The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Postel attended <a href="/wiki/Van_Nuys_High_School" title="Van Nuys High School">Van Nuys High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-wizards_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wizards-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a> where he earned his B.S. (1966) as well as his M.S. (1968) in Engineering. There he completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974, with <a href="/wiki/Dave_Farber" class="mw-redirect" title="Dave Farber">Dave Farber</a> as his thesis advisor. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Internet_map_in_February_82.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Internet_map_in_February_82.png/220px-Internet_map_in_February_82.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Internet_map_in_February_82.png/330px-Internet_map_in_February_82.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Internet_map_in_February_82.png/440px-Internet_map_in_February_82.png 2x" data-file-width="832" data-file-height="1093" /></a><figcaption>Map of the Internet, created by Jon Postel in 1982</figcaption></figure> <p>Postel started work at UCLA on 23 December 1969 as a Postgraduate Research Engineer (I) where he was involved in early work on the <a href="/wiki/ARPANET" title="ARPANET">ARPANET</a>. He was involved in the development of the Internet domain system and, at his instigation, <a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Kahn" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Kahn">Bob Kahn</a> developed a second set of protocols for handling data between networks, which is now known as <a href="/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite" title="Internet protocol suite">Internet protocol suite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together with Cerf and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Crocker" title="Steve Crocker">Steve Crocker</a>, Postel worked on implementing most of the ARPANET protocols.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cerf would later become one of the principal designers of the TCP/IP standard,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which works because of the sentence known as <a href="/wiki/Robustness_principle" title="Robustness principle">Postel's Law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Postel worked with ARPANET until 24 August 1973 when he left to join <a href="/wiki/MITRE_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="MITRE Corporation">MITRE Corporation</a>. He assisted with <a href="/wiki/InterNIC" title="InterNIC">Network Information Center</a>, which was being set up at <a href="/wiki/SRI_International" title="SRI International">SRI</a> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Feinler" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Feinler">Elizabeth Feinler</a>. In March 1977, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Information_Sciences_Institute" title="Information Sciences Institute">Information Sciences Institute</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a> as a research scientist.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Postel was the <a href="/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments">RFC</a> Editor from 1969 until his death, and wrote and edited many important RFCs, including RFC 791, RFC 792 and RFC 793, which define the basic protocols of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite" title="Internet protocol suite">Internet protocol suite</a>, and RFC 2223, <i>Instructions to RFC Authors</i>. Between 1982 and 1984 Postel co-authored the RFCs which became the foundation of today's <a href="/wiki/DNS" class="mw-redirect" title="DNS">DNS</a> (RFC 819, RFC 881, RFC 882 and RFC 920) which were joined in 1995 by RFC 1591 which he also co-wrote. In total, he wrote or co-authored more than 20 RFCs.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Postel served on the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Architecture_Board" title="Internet Architecture Board">Internet Architecture Board</a> and its predecessors for many years. He was the Director of the names and number assignment clearinghouse, the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority</a> (IANA), from its inception. He was the first member of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Society" title="Internet Society">Internet Society</a>, and was on its Board of Trustees. He was the original and long-time <a href="/wiki/.us" title=".us">.us</a> <a href="/wiki/Top-Level_Domain" class="mw-redirect" title="Top-Level Domain">Top-Level Domain</a> administrator. He also managed the Los Nettos Network. </p><p>All of the above were part-time activities he assumed in conjunction with his primary position as Director of the Computer Networks Division, Division 7, of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DNS_Root_Authority_test,_U.S._response"><span id="DNS_Root_Authority_test.2C_U.S._response"></span>DNS Root Authority test, U.S. response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: DNS Root Authority test, U.S. response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jon_Postel_(full_frame).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Jon_Postel_%28full_frame%29.jpg/250px-Jon_Postel_%28full_frame%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Jon_Postel_%28full_frame%29.jpg/500px-Jon_Postel_%28full_frame%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="1097" data-file-height="673" /></a><figcaption>Postel in 1994 with map of Internet top-level domains</figcaption></figure> <p>On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional <a href="/wiki/Root_nameserver" class="mw-redirect" title="Root nameserver">root nameservers</a> on his own authority and instructed them to reconfigure their servers,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> changing the root zone server from then <a href="/wiki/Leidos" title="Leidos">SAIC</a> subsidiary <a href="/wiki/Network_Solutions" title="Network Solutions">Network Solutions</a>' A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET (198.41.0.4) to IANA's DNSROOT.IANA.ORG (198.32.1.98). The operators complied with Postel's instructions, thus dividing control of Internet naming between the non-government operators with IANA and the 4 remaining U.S. Government roots at <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">DoD</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ballistics_Research_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballistics Research Laboratory">BRL</a> with NSI. Though usage of the Internet was not interrupted, Postel was threatened by US Presidential science advisor <a href="/wiki/Ira_Magaziner" title="Ira Magaziner">Ira Magaziner</a> with the statement "You'll never work on the Internet again" and was ordered to end the test,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which he did.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within a week, the US <a href="/wiki/National_Telecommunications_and_Information_Administration" title="National Telecommunications and Information Administration">NTIA</a> issued <i>A proposal to improve technical management of Internet names and addresses</i>, including changes to authority over the Internet <a href="/wiki/DNS_root_zone" title="DNS root zone">DNS root zone</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which ultimately, and controversially,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> increased U.S. control.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 16, 1998, Postel died of complications from <a href="/wiki/Heart_surgery" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart surgery">heart surgery</a> in Los Angeles. He was recovering from a <a href="/wiki/Heart_valve_repair" title="Heart valve repair">surgery to replace a leaking heart valve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The significance of Jon Postel's contributions to building the Internet, both technical and personal, were such that a memorial recollection of his life and his work forms part of the core technical literature sequence of the Internet in the form of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2468">RFC2468</a> "I Remember IANA", written by Vint Cerf. </p><p>The Postel Center at <a href="/wiki/Information_Sciences_Institute" title="Information Sciences Institute">Information Sciences Institute</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a>, is named in his honor, as is the annual <a href="/wiki/Postel_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Postel Award">Postel Award</a>. In 2012, Postel was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Hall_of_Fame" title="Internet Hall of Fame">Internet Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Channel Islands' Domain Registry building was named after him in early 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another tribute, "Working with Jon: Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998" (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2441">RFC2441</a>), was written by <a href="/wiki/Danny_Cohen_(computer_scientist)" title="Danny Cohen (computer scientist)">Danny Cohen</a>. </p><p>Perhaps his most famous legacy is from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc760">RFC760</a>, which includes a <a href="/wiki/Robustness_principle" title="Robustness principle">robustness principle</a> often called <a href="/wiki/Postel%27s_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Postel's law">Postel's law</a>: "an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior" (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"). </p><p>The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Postel. The award has been presented most years since 1999 by the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Society" title="Internet Society">Internet Society</a> to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community." The first recipient of the award was Postel himself, posthumously.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The award was created by <a href="/wiki/Vint_Cerf" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a> as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Society" title="Internet Society">Internet Society</a> and announced in <i>"I remember <a href="/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority" title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">IANA</a>"</i> published as <a href="/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments">RFC</a> 2468.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Computer_Networks:_The_Heralds_of_Resource_Sharing" title="Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing"><i>Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing</i></a> – 1972 documentary film</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Internet" title="History of the Internet">History of the Internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/STD_8" title="STD 8">STD 8</a> – series of Internet Standards<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jon_Postel&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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href="/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow" title="John Perry Barlow">John Perry Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Fl%C3%BCckiger" title="François Flückiger">François Flückiger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Kent_(network_security)" title="Stephen Kent (network security)">Stephen Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne-Marie_Eklund_L%C3%B6winder" title="Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder">Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henning_Schulzrinne" title="Henning Schulzrinne">Henning Schulzrinne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman">Richard Stallman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Aaron Swartz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Allman" title="Eric Allman">Eric Allman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Bina" title="Eric Bina">Eric Bina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karlheinz_Brandenburg" title="Karlheinz Brandenburg">Karlheinz Brandenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cioffi" title="John Cioffi">John Cioffi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hualin_Qian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hualin Qian (page does not exist)">Hualin Qian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Vixie" title="Paul Vixie">Paul Vixie</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jaap_Akkerhuis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jaap Akkerhuis (page does not exist)">Jaap Akkerhuis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yvonne_Andres" title="Yvonne Andres">Yvonne Marie Andres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Emtage" title="Alan Emtage">Alan Emtage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Krol" title="Ed Krol">Ed Krol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy_LaQuey_Parker" title="Tracy LaQuey Parker">Tracy LaQuey Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Partridge" title="Craig Partridge">Craig Partridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Inductees_since_201980" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Inductees since 2019</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td 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Lynch">Dan Lynch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Armour_Polly" title="Jean Armour Polly">Jean Armour Polly</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Soriano_(internet_pioneer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="José Soriano (internet pioneer) (page does not exist)">José Soriano</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Stanton_(computer_scientist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Stanton (computer scientist) (page does not exist)">Michael Stanton</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stanton" class="extiw" title="pt:Michael Stanton">pt</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Klaas_Wierenga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Klaas Wierenga (page does not exist)">Klaas Wierenga</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Suguru_Yamaguchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suguru Yamaguchi (page does not exist)">Suguru Yamaguchi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E8%8B%B1" class="extiw" title="ja:山口英">ja</a>]</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carlos_Afonso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carlos Afonso (page does not exist)">Carlos Afonso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Blokzijl" title="Rob Blokzijl">Rob Blokzijl</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Werner_Braun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Werner Braun (page does not exist)">Hans-Werner Braun</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Werner_Braun" class="extiw" title="de:Hans-Werner Braun">de</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frode_Greisen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frode Greisen (page does not exist)">Frode Greisen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jan_Gruntorad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jan Gruntorad (page does not exist)">Jan Gruntorad</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saul_Hahn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saul Hahn (page does not exist)">Saul Hahn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kim_Hubbard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kim Hubbard (page does not exist)">Kim Hubbard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rafael_Ibarra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafael Ibarra (page does not exist)">Rafael Ibarra</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xing_Li_(computer_scientist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xing Li (computer scientist) (page does not exist)">Xing Li</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yngvar_G._Lundh" title="Yngvar G. 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