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DIED. JONATHAN B. POSTEL, 55, scraggly-bearded Internet guru often called the father of the World Wide Web; following heart surgery; in Santa Monica, Calif. As the creator of the Internet's address system, Postel devised the coding that allows users to type words, rather than numbers, to locate websites...
While the proposal's author, Jon Postel,director of the Internet Assigned NumbersAuthority, described it in a cover letter ascommanding "the support of a broad consensus ofInternet stakeholders, private and public,"opposition to the proposal has surfaced...
...This organization," Postel wrote, "will beunique in the world--a non-governmentalorganization with significant responsibilities foradministering what is becoming an important globalresource...
...This is much more a spontaneous explosion of the needs of people who are committed to a certain politics to...get together," said Danny Postel, a senior philosophy major at Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., who helped organize the event...
History shows that such environmental destruction can have far-reaching consequences. The salinization of irrigated land led to the fall of Mesopotamia and Babylon, and perhaps even the Mayan civilization of Central America. Similar pressures are at work today. Sandra Postel of Worldwatch Institute estimates that 60 million hectares (nearly 150 million acres) of irrigated land worldwide have been damaged by salt buildup...