Jon Postel Quotes
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The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind…
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Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
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A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
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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 a…
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Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red…
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
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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…
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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
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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 your…
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In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
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One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
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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…
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Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the…
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Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
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The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
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That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort…
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