Jon Postel Quotes

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

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.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

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 of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

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 much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others