steve crocker, himself a legendary figure in the networking world, hands over the "half fishball" to peter kirstein and tells a story about the early days of networking in the uk . the first award was given posthumously to jon postel in 1999, the second got scott bradner, known for his work on routers. he also helds a us patent on speech recognition. 2001 daniel karrenberg, he was involved in the seetting up of eunet and last year stephen wolff