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
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
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.
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.
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
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.
The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
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.
In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
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.
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.