the CIGALE packet switching network. CYCLADES used a layered architecture, as did the Internet later, to research internetworking concepts. He participated in the International Networking Working Group from 1972, initially chaired by Vint Cerf. He was acknowledged by Bob Kahn and Cerf in their seminal 1974 paper on internetworking protocols, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication". In 2002 Pouzin, along with Jean-Louis Grangé, Jean-Pierre Henninot and Jean-François Morfin, participated in the creation of Eurolinc, which is a non-profit association that promotes multilingualism in domain names. In June 2003, Eurolinc was accredited by UNO to participate at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). In November 2011, he founded Savoir-Faire, an alternative root company, with Chantal Lebrument and Quentin Perrigueur. In 2012 he developed a service called Open-Root, which is dedicated to sell top-level domains (TLD) in all scripts outside of ICANN. This way people can develop second-level domains for free. Awards 1997 – Pouzin received the ACM SIGCOMM Award for "pioneering work on connectionless packet communication". 2003 – Louis Pouzin was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government on March 19, 2003. 2012 – Pouzin was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. 2013 – Pouzin was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 2016 – Pouzin received the Global IT Award. 2018 – Pouzin is promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor See also History of the Internet Internet in France Internet pioneers Protocol Wars Rémi Després References Further reading External links Louis Pouzin: a major Internet figure, INRIA École Polytechnique alumni French computer scientists 1931 births Living people Internet pioneers Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur