Jon Postel

Jon Postel

male, deceased (1998)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet pioneer, IANA, ARPANET, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robustness Principle…Request for comment, RequestforComments
Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is...

Joyce K. Reynolds

female
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, IANA, Postel Award, RequestforComments, Who's Who in the Internet, Internet Engineering Steering Group
Joyce K. Reynolds is a computer scientist. Reynolds holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, USA. She has...
Steve Crocker

Steve Crocker

male, 65 years old
Trusted Information Systems, The Aerospace Corporation, University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, RequestforComments, University of California, Los Angeles
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and...
Mark Crispin

Mark Crispin

male, 53 years old
Stanford University, Incompatible Timesharing System, Network Control Program, note date of issue, The Telnet Song, Guy Steele…RequestforComments
Mark Crispin (born 1956) is a staff member at the University of Washington, noted as the inventor of IMAP. He is the author or co-author of...
Paul Mockapetris

Paul Mockapetris

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris, ARPANET, RequestforComments, Information Sciences Institute, domain name system
Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883...
Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie

male
Internet Software Consortium, Open Root Server Network, Mail Abuse Prevention System, Internet Systems Consortium, Sendmail Theory and Practice, bind…Chief Technology Officer for PAIX, RequestforComments, Senior Vice President for Network Services
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was...
Keith Moore

Keith Moore

male, 49 years old
Tennessee Technological University, RequestforComments, Electronic mail, IPv6, HTTP, On the use of HTTP as a Substrate
Keith Moore (born 12 October 1960) is the author and co-author of several IETF RFCs related to the MIME and SMTP protocols for electronic mail,...
Steve Kille

Steve Kille

male
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Oxford University, rfc, RequestforComments, LDAP, ISODE
Steve Kille is the CEO of Isode, which he founded in 1992 and re-launched in 2002. Steve is an Internet pioneer and visionary, who has been closely...
Phil Karn

Phil Karn

male
Qualcomm, from Baltimore, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, electrical engineering, RequestforComments, callsign
Phil Karn is an engineer from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a...
Harald Tveit Alvestrand

Harald Tveit Alvestrand

male
ietf, Internet Engineering Task Force, Google employee, internationalization and localization, Google, Namsos…RequestforComments
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (born 29 June 1959) was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force from 2001 until 2005, and is an author of...