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Being in the limelight has its minuses.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Limelight
Being
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Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.
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Aspect
Multimedia
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One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
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Home
Getting High
Speed
Way
Cable
Systems
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The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
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Running
Domain
Want
Fair
Overriding
Rule
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I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
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Closest
Closest Thing
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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
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Home
Computer
Connections
Connection
Pretty Good
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Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Discussion
Drafting
Groups
Valuable
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Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
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Conservative
Accept
Liberal
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The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
People
Teamwork
Together
Cooperate
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Should Have
Ten
Wonderful
Web
Wonderful Thing
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Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
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Accepting
Conservative
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All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
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Nice
Stuff
Interface
User
Via
Web
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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Firsts
Involved
Site
Students
Ucla
Student
Graduate
Graduate Student
Net
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The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Spectacular
Wide
World
World Wide Web
Predicted
Web
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A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Addresses
Names
Routes
Address
Seek
Route
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In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
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Behavior
Conservative
Receiving
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TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Accepting
Conservative
Principles
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Government
Internet
Issues
Unanimity
Issue
Multinational
Seemed
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Audio
Games
Phone Calls
Phones
Thinking
Video
Picture
Calls
Phone
Telephone
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In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Chemistry
Class
Computer
Jigsaw
Jigsaw Puzzles
Program
Sitting
Writing
Weird
Computer Program
Jigsaw Puzzle
Puzzle
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Computer
Graduate School
Involving
Research
Ucla
Assistant
Project
Graduate
Measure
Programmer
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Access
Bandwidth
Crunch
Higher
Ought
Planning
Speed
Tremendous
Soon
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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.
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Home
People
Planning
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Space
Domain
Names
Nice
Registration
Charge
Fair
Just Be
Treat
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Consensus
Corporate
Documents
Fans
Football
Football Game
Games
Participating
Plans
Red
Trying
Easily
Drafted
Pencil
Reach
Stadium
Thousands
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Space
Authority
Conventions
Coordinator
Domain
Essentials
Names
Protocol
Administer
Assigned
Central
Essential
Operation
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Computer
Explaining
Interesting
Magazines
Milestone
Related
Surprising
Article
Magazine
Mention
Pick
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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.
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Products
Standards
Years Ago
Universities
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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.
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Groups
People
Years
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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.
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Data
Works
Delivered
Exactly
Exactly What
File
Transfer
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Bandwidth
Path
Reserved
Allowed
Basis
Percentage
Served
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Computers
Bits
Decision
Imagine
Size
Time Good Decision
Address
Number
Ip
Larger
One Of The Things
Turned
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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.
Jon Postel / Computer Scientist
Jobs
People
Thinking
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