Jon Postel
postel@isi.edu
Petition Candidate

Work Experience:

Jon Postel is the Associate Director for Networking of the HPCC
Division of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the
University of Southern California (USC).

Jon has been involved in the development of computer communication
protocols and applications from the early days of the ARPANET.

Jon was the editor of many of the protocol specifications basic to
the Internet including IP, TCP, Telnet, and SMTP.

He currently is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
and servers as the RFC Editor.

His current interests are include multimachine internetwork
applications, multimedia conferencing, very large networks, and
very high speed communications.

Jon received a BS and MS in Engineering and a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.