In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and publiJon Posteld as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death.