I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing. — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
