42 Quotes by Jon Postel

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

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.

I am the Director of the Computer Networks Division of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

Within the Los Nettos community we are looking at higher speed connections, driven by our own need for good connectivity and sharing costs.

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

reserved for infrastructure purposes to help ensure stable operation of the Internet.

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.