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Jon Postel


American
August 6, 1943
Scientist
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One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.


Jon Postel
Tags: Home Get Way
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I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.


Jon Postel
Tags: God Me Think
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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
Tags: Get How Where
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All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.


Jon Postel
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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
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
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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
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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
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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