That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

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.