Each year, the Internet Society awards the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. This 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 award is focused on sustained and substantial technical contributions, service to the community, and 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 30 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.
2012 Call for Nominations
The Internet Society is soliciting nomination of qualified candidates for the 2012 award by 31 May 2012. The award is scheduled to be presented during the 84th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Vancouver, Canada, 29 July - 3 August. For information on nomination procedures and online submission forms, go to: http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-and-awards/awards/poste....