Legacy
On October 16, 1998, Postel died of complications after heart valve replacement surgery in Los Angeles, 9 months after the DNS Root Authority incident.
The significance of Jon Postel's contributions to building the Internet, both technical and personal, were such that a memorial recollection of his life forms part of the core technical literature sequence of the Internet in the form of RFC 2468 "I Remember IANA", written by Vinton Cerf. (This is no trivial thing given that between April 1969 and October 2010, only 6,044 RFCs were published).
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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