All Jon Postel Quotes
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
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The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
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The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
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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 it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.
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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 to the use and operation of the Internet.
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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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Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
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I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
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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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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 pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
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