ISOC (Internet Society) has announced the annual Call for Nominations, for the organizations' 2015 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award (with a deadline of May 15th, 2015). Presentation of the award at IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) #93. IETF 93 is slated for Sunday, 19 Jul 2015 through and inclusive of Friday, 24 Jul 2015 in stunningly beautiful Prague, Czech Republic.

Learn more about Jonathan Postel, Ph.D. whom Vinton Grey Cerf, Ph.D. once characterized thusly:

"Jon has been our North Star for decades ... He was the Internet's Boswell and its technical conscience." - Vinton Cerf, Ph.D.

Quotes

"It's perfectly appropriate to be upset. I thought of it in a slightly different way--like a space that we were exploring and, in the early days, we figured out this consistent path through the space: IP, TCP, and so on. What's been happening over the last few years is that the IETF is filling the rest of the space with every alternative approach, not necessarily any better. Every possible alternative is now being written down. And it's not useful." Jon Postel, Ph.D. (1)

(1) Richard Comerford. State of the Internet: Roundtable 4.0. IEEE Spectrum 35(10):69 - 79, October 1998.