"There was one issue on which there seemed……" — Jon Postel
"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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30 Quotes by Jon Postel
Jon Postel has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating,…
- 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…
- 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…
- In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.