Jon Postel
Jon Postel
Jonathan Bruce Postelwas an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Commentdocument series, and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authorityuntil his death. In his lifetime he was known as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence on the medium...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 August 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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.
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
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 think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional."Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Within the Los Nettos community we are looking at higher speed connections, driven by our own need for good connectivity and sharing costs.