Jon Postel Dead
Ran the internet's numbers — RFC editor, IANA, and the robustness principle — for three decades, alone.
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Created RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Ran the IANA for 30 years — assigned the numbers the internet runs on — and wrote the RFCs defining SMTP, DNS's foundations, and the 'Postel's law' robustness principle.\n\n'Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send' — the internet's most quoted rule.