The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award is an award named after Jon Postel. The award has been presented every year since 1999 by the Internet Society to "honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community."
The first recipient of the award was Jon Postel himself (posthumously).[1] The award was created by Vint Cerf as Chairman of the Internet Society and announced in "I remember IANA" published as RFC 2468.[2]