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Membership in the ACM isn't a particular distinction--it's a large organization, and easy to join. Did Postel do anything specific with/for ACM? Hold office, edit a journal? Vicki Rosenzweig

I agree, I removed this part. Marco d'Itri

[edit] Lucky

I'm so lucky, I got to meet the man a year before he passed away.

[edit] Comments from Joe Bannister (joseph@isi.edu, ex director of div 7)

Vicki's sentiment about Jon's ACM membership is correct, but I'll point out that he was the 1997 corecipient of the ACM Sigcomm Award, which is highly prestigious. Jon also received the 1998 ITU Silver Medal, the 1997 John C. Dvorak Award for Telecommunications Excellence, and (posthumously) the 1999 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award from ISOC.

Jon's death did follow heart-valve replacement surgery -- but by several (five or six) years. His unexpected death, however, was related to heart problems. To be pedantically precise, he died in Santa Monica, California, which is in the county (but not the city) of Los Angeles.

Thanks for your accurate and objective article. I miss Jon and am pleased to see him thus remembered.