Awards
- 1997 John C. Dvorak Telecommunications Excellence Award "Personal Achievement - Network Engineering" for DNS design and implementation;
- 2002 Distinguished Alumnus award from the University of California, Irvine
- 2003 IEEE Internet Award for his contributions to DNS
- 2005 ACM SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks in recognition of his foundational work in designing, developing and deploying the Domain Name System, and his sustained leadership in overall Internet architecture development
- 2012 inducted by the Internet Society into the Internet Hall of Fame as an "innovator"
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