Editing Jon Postel (section)

== Legacy ==

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 [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2468 RFC2468] "I Remember IANA", written by [[Vint Cerf]].

The Postel Center at [[Information Sciences Institute]], [[University of Southern California]], is named in his honor, as is the annual [[Postel Award]]. In 2012, Postel was inducted into the [[Internet Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/year/2012 |title=2012 Inductees |publisher=Internet Hall of Fame |access-date=24 April 2012 |date=2012 |archive-date=December 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213033309/http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/year/2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Channel Islands' Domain Registry building was named after him in early 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gg.html|title=Delegation Record for .GG|publisher=Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|website=www.iana.org|date=8 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/je.html|title=Delegation Record for .JE|publisher=Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|website=www.iana.org|date=8 March 2016}}</ref>

Another tribute, "Working with Jon: Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998"
([https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2441 RFC2441]), was written by [[Danny Cohen (computer scientist)|Danny Cohen]].

Perhaps his most famous legacy is from [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc760 RFC760], which includes a [[robustness principle]] often called [[Postel's law]]: "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").

The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Postel. The award has been presented most years since 1999 by the [[Internet Society]] 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.isoc.org/awards/postel/awards.shtml | title = Postel Service Award - Past awards | publisher = [[Internet Society|ISOC]] | accessdate = 2008-08-05 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100107062034/http://www.isoc.org/awards/postel/awards.shtml | archivedate = 2010-01-07 }}</ref> The award was created by [[Vint Cerf]] as chairman of the [[Internet Society]] and announced in ''"I remember [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]]"'' published as [[Request for Comments|RFC]] 2468.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 | author = Vint Cerf | author-link = Vint Cerf | title = I remember IANA | date = October 1998 | publisher = <nowiki>RFC 2468</nowiki> | accessdate = 2008-08-05}}</ref>