Tag Archives: Jon Postel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. Jon Postel

Being in the limelight has its minuses. Jon Postel