Skip to main content

Jonathan B. Postel papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0292

  • Staff Only
  • Select an item to initiate a request

Abstract

The archives of the office of Dr. Jonathan B. Postel. Dr. Postel (1943-1998) was director of the Computer Networks division at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California, and director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Dates

  • Creation: 1943 - 1988

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Some materials in the collection are restricted. These boxes are identified in the "Restricted" series.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Extent

38 Linear Feet (38 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Processing Information

The collection is unprocessed. The file-level descriptions in this finding aid were copied from an inventory that was donated with the collection in 1997. The original inventory is available upon request.

Title
Finding aid for the Jonathan B. Postel papers
Status
Unprocessed
Date
2010
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2022 February: Sue Luftschein updated the resource record to be DACS compliant and identified the boxes that are restricted for this finding aid.
  • 2023 March: Bo Doub imported file-level description into the finding aid from an inventory that was donated with the collection in 1997.

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States