Jon Postel Quotes

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• The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
• 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…
• Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
• A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
• But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
• 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…
• 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…
• Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
• 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…
• I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
• 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…
• In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
• One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
• There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
• The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
• 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…
• 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…
• Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
• The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
• 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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