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