Editing Joyce K. Reynolds (section)

== Career ==
Reynolds held bachelor's and master's degrees in social sciences from the [[University of Southern California]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1336#page-30|title=Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members|last=Malkin|first=G.|website=tools.ietf.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-27}}</ref>

From 1983 until 1998, she worked with [[Jon Postel]] to develop early functions of the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]], such as the global allocation of IP addresses, Autonomous System (AS) number allocation, and management of the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://icannwiki.org/Joyce_Reynolds|title=Joyce Reynolds - ICANNWiki|website=icannwiki.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-27}}</ref> After Postel's death in 1998, Reynolds helped supervise the transition of the IANA functions to the [[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]].<ref name=":1" /> She worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of [[Information Sciences Institute|ISI]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2003-October/000343.html|title=[ih] Joyce K. Reynolds|last=Reynolds|first=Joyce|date=9 October 2003|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165406/http://www.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2003-October/000343.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

From 1987 to 2006, she served on the editorial team of the Request for Comments series, co-leading the RFC Editor function at the ISI from 1998 until 2006.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.internetsociety.org/news/press-releases/2006/bob-braden-joyce-k-reynolds-receive-postel-award/|title=Bob Braden and Joyce K. Reynolds receive Postel Award {{!}} Internet Society|work=Internet Society|access-date=2018-04-27|language=en-US}}</ref>

As Area Director of the User Services area, she was a member of the [[IESG|Internet Engineering Steering Group]] of the [[IETF]] from 1990 to March 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/past-members/|title=IESG Past Members|website=IETF|language=en|access-date=2018-04-27}}</ref>