42 Quotes by Jon Postel

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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