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2 unusual facts about Jon Postel


Who Controls the Internet?

Jon Postel met an even more direct response when he attempted to retake control over the root naming and numbering system in 1998.

Jon Postel was the ultimate authority over Internet domain names.


.je

je and .gg first appeared on the Internet in 1996 after Jon Postel agreed with Nigel Roberts of Island Networks to add four codes (GG and JE, and IM and AC) to the IANA list of TLDs.

American Registry for Internet Numbers

The initial Board of Trustees consisted of Scott Bradner, John Curran, Kim Hubbard, Don Telage, Randy Bush, Raymundo Vega Aguilar, and Jon Postel (IANA) as an ex-officio member.

Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre

On January 30, 1998, Ira Magaziner, then the senior adviser to President Clinton for policy development, released a discussion paper, known as the "green paper" after the DNS root authority incident.


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