Jon Postel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”