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
Therefore you need high speed from your house out and the cable companies and the TV guys are just not thinking about it at all.
One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
I got the notebook and got the list of RFCs. That's how I got to be RFC editor - by keeping the list of who is writing which one.
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.
TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
Being in the limelight has its minuses.
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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.
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.