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Jon Postel

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


— Jon Postel


#conservative #liberal #others #you

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.


— Jon Postel


#get #how #indicates #name #route

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


— Jon Postel


#interface #nice #put #really #stuff

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.


— Jon Postel


#aspect #multimedia #our #work

Being in the limelight has its minuses.


— Jon Postel


#limelight #minuses

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


#bandwidth #crunch #going #got #higher

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.


— Jon Postel


#connection #good #home #i #i do

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.


— Jon Postel


#should #ten #then #thing #web

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


— Jon Postel


#drafting #group #less #productive #valuable

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.


— Jon Postel


#got #graduate #graduate student #i #involved






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His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and publiJon Posteld as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death.

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