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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2010 JONATHAN B. POSTEL SERVICE AWARD

The Internet Society (ISOC) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 
Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. This annual award is presented to an 
individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions in service 
to the Internet community. This year the award will be presented during the 
78th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Maastricht, 
Netherlands, 25-30 July 2010. The award includes a presentation crystal and a 
prize of USD 20,000.

The award is focused on sustained and substantial technical contributions, 
service to the community, and leadership, with 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 thirty 
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.

Award Nomination Procedure
Nominations may be submitted via an online form until the deadline of 28 May 
2010. More information and the nomination form is available here:

http://isoc.org/postel

About Internet Society
The Internet Society (ISOC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 to 
provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. ISOC 
is the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the 
Internet's premier technical standards body. With offices in Washington, 
D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open 
development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of people 
throughout the world. For more information, see:

http://InternetSociety.org

Contact:
Greg Wood
Internet Society

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