One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

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.