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Jon Postel Inspirational Quotes (13)

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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 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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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 work station.
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The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
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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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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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In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
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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 people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
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TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
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Being in the limelight has its minuses.
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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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