CV of Jonathan B. Postel, as of 20 September 1997. Emended 3 January 2002 to include vital records, Y2K, etc. Further information available at http://www.postel.org/ -- J. Touch Director, Postel Center for Experimental Networking) USC/ISI Jonathan B. Postel August 6, 1943 - October 16, 1998 Former Director, Computer Networks Division Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601 Talk: +1-310-822-1511 (ISI general phone number) FAX: +1-310-823-6714 (ISI general fax number) Email: postel@isi.edu (no longer active) Education: 1974 Ph.D. Computer Science UCLA 1968 M.S. Engineering UCLA 1966 B.S. Engineering UCLA Experience: Mar 1977 to Oct 1998 -- USC - Information Sciences Institute Aug 1996 - Oct 1998 -- Director, Computer Networks Division The Director of the Computer Networks Division (Division 7) of ISI supervises the work of about 20 projects with about 70 people. Major responsibilities include assisting Project Leaders to make their deliverables, complete their projects on time and in budget, and to develop new idea and produce proposals for new work. Jon also is very involved in Internet development and infrastructure management, including directing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, acting as the RFC Editor, participating on the Internet Architecture Board, and serving on the Internet Society Board of Trustees. Jon continues to oversee the operation of the Los Nettos regional network, and related network infrastructure activities at ISI. Jun 1994 - Jul 1996 -- Associate Director, HPCC Division During this period a number of new activities in manufacturing, micromanufacturing and microrobotics, and electronic commerce were added to the core areas of computer communication, networking, and distributed systems. Subsequently, ISI created a new division under Peter Will to focus on the new areas. Postel [Page 1] JBP Vita June 1990 Management of core areas remaining in the HPCC division was the responsibility of Paul Mockapetris (HPCC Division Director Sep-1994 through Sep-1995) and Jon Postel. During this period the Los Nettos regional network for the greater Los Angeles area has been upgraded from a T1 to T3 core system with a T3 link to the Internet backbone; and it has grown from a small consortium to a service providing Internet access to over 70 organizations. New research project started during this period include: the NSF sponsored Routing Arbiter; and the ARPA sponsored efforts in Large Scale Active Middleware (LSAM), and Teranode Network Technology (TNT). Key research concerns continue to be very high speed networks, and very large networks, and the design of protocols that scale appropriately as speeds increase and the number of nodes in the network increase. During this time the HPCC Division had eight contracts covering twelve projects staffed by about fifty people. Jun 1992 - Jun 1994 -- Associate Director, HPCC Division In June 1992, ISI created the High Performance Computing and Communications Division (Division 7), combining the old Communications Division, the old Systems Division, and other activities, under a new director Peter Will. Jon Postel had two responsibilities in the new HPCC division: (1) Associate Director for Networking, and (2) Associate Director for Administration. As Associate Director for Networking, Jon was responsible for leading the scientific effort on five contracts involving ten task areas and 15 people. The work included gigabit speed local area networks, personal teleconferencing, protocol engineering, and Internet infrastructure. As Associate Director for Administration, Jon was responsible for the administrative issues for nine contracts involving 16 tasks and 25 people. Jon was also very involved in developing ideas for new projects. Jul 1989 - Jun 1992 -- Director, Communications Division Division Director of the Communications Division (Division 7) of ISI with responsibility for coordination of three contracts Postel [Page 2] JBP Vita June 1990 of five projects with about 25 people. Involved in the development of new projects. Continuing involvement with the evolution of the Internet through the work of the various ISI projects on Internet Concepts, Multimedia Conferencing, Protocol Engineering and Technical Planning, Parallel Computing System Research, and the Fast Parts Automated Broker. Supervision of the Los Nettos regional network during its growth from five to eleven nodes. In June 1989 the old Systems Division was split into the Communications Division and the new Systems Division. Jul 1988 - Jun 1989 -- Director, Systems Division Division Director of the Systems Division (Division 2) of ISI with responsibility for coordination of five contracts of eight projects with about 50 people. Involved in the development of new projects. Involved in the evolution of the Internet through the work of the various ISI projects on Internet Concepts, Multimedia Conferencing, Protocol Engineering and Technical Planning, Fast Parts Automated Broker, Parallel Computing System Research, and Advanced Packaging Technology. Involved in the creation of the "Los Nettos" regional network for the Los Angeles area. Supervised the establishment of the initial five nodes. Jul 1986 - Jun 1988 -- Associate Director, Systems Division Involved in the day to day management of the Systems Division, including project and contract management and budget supervision, proposal development, personnel management. Jan 1978 - Sep 1990 -- Project Leader, Internet Concepts Project Project Leader of the Internet Concepts project at ISI which has created prototype implementations of several of the protocols developed for the ARPA community, including the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP), the Domain Name Service (DNS), and an experimental Multimedia Mail system. Participated in the Internet Activities Board and served as the editor of the "Request for Comments" Internet document Postel [Page 3] JBP Vita June 1990 series. Mar 1977 - Dec 1977 -- Technical Staff Studied the possible approaches for converting the ARPANET from the NCP protocol to the TCP protocol. Participated in the design of many protocols for the ARPA community including the Internet Protocol (IP) which provides the basis for the Internet. Oct 1974 to Mar 1977 -- SRI International Worked in Doug Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) developing the NLS (later called Augment) system. Special focus was on communication issues. Led a special project to develop protocol specifications for the Defense Communication Agency (DCA) for AUTODIN-II. This protocol was a version of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). Most of the development effort during this period at ARC was focused on the National Software Works (NSW) sponsored by ARPA and the Air Force. At the end of this period at ARC, lead the development group (ARC-DEV) of about 20 people. Jul 1974 to Sep 1974 -- Keydata Redesigned and reimplemented the NCP in the DEC PDP-15 data management system used by ARPA to provide general communication functionality. Oct 1973 to Jun 1974 -- The Mitre Corporation Conducted a study of ARPANET Network Control Protocol implementations, published as a MITRE technical report. Oct 1967 to Jun 1973 -- UCLA Involved in development of the META-5 compiler-compiler system. A member (and later leader) of the programming team for the ARPANET Network Measurement Center. This team developed a time-sharing operating system for the SDS Sigma-7, and participated in the ARPA community effort to define the protocols (NCP, Telnet, etc.) for the ARPANET. Postel [Page 4] JBP Vita June 1990 Selected Publications: Postel, J., "Main Applications", Chapter 6, pp 183-274, in "Internet System Handbook", Daniel C. Lynch, ed., Addison-Wesley, 1993. Cohen, D., Postel, J., Rom, R., "IP Addressing and Routing in a Local Wireless Network", IEEE Infocom 1992, Vol.2, Paper 5A.3, pp. 626-632, Florence, Italy, June 1992. Schooler, E., S. Casner, and J. Postel, "Multimedia Conferencing: Has it Come of Age?", Proceedings of the 24th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, pp 707-716, Kauai, Hawaii, January 1991. Postel, J., "Computer Network Interconnection", Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of the International Federation for Information Processing, San Francisco, California, in Information Processing 1989, G.X. Ritter(ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.(North-Holland), IFIP, August 1989. Postel, J.B., G.G. Finn, A.R. Katz, and J.K. Reynolds, An Experimental Multimedia Mail System", ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1988. Reynolds, J. K., J. Postel, A. Katz, G. Finn, and A. DeSchon, The DARPA Experimental Multimedia Mail System", Computer, Vol. 18, No. 10, October 1985. Leiner, B., R. Cole, J. Postel, and D. Mills, "The DARPA Internet Protocol Suite", IEEE INFOCOM85, Washington D.C., March 1985. Also in IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1985. Also as ISI/RS-85- 153. Postel, J., "Internetwork Applications Using the DARPA Protocol Suite", IEEE INFOCOM85, Washington D.C., March 1985. Also as ISI/RS-85-151. Mockapetris, P., J. Postel, and P. Kirton, "Name Server Design for Distributed Systems", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Communication, October 30 to November 3 1984, Sidney, Australia. Also as ISI/RS-84-132, June 1984. Cohen, D., and J. Postel, "The ISO Reference Model and Other Protocol Architectures", Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of the International Federation for Information Processing, Paris, France, September 1983. Also as ISI/RS-83-6, November 1983. Postel [Page 5]