Jon Postel

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

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

“I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Being in the limelight has its minuses.”

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

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

“Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.”

“That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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