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Jonathan Bruce Postel (/pəˈstɛl/; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was 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 Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. In his lifetime he was known as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence on the medium.

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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.

Consensus, Football, Games, Interested, Plans, Trying

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

World, Spectacular, World Wide Web, Web, Wide

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

Addresses, Indicates, Names, Route, Routes, Seek

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

People, Teamwork, Together, Works

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

Firsts, Graduate, Involved, Student, Students, Ucla

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

Names, Space, Essentials, Coordinator, Operation

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.

Class, Jigsaw Puzzles, Program, Thing, Told, Writing

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

Getting High, High, Home, Systems, Way

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.

Article, Computer, Interesting, Magazines, Sort, Surprising

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.

Games, Internet, Phones, Sense, Thinking, Video

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.

Bandwidth, Home, Ought, People, Planning

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

Running, Want, Domain, Overriding, Rule

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.

Fair, Name, Names, Nice, Same, Space

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

Groups, Drafting, Valuable, Group, Productive

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Accept, Accepting, Conservative, Implementations, Principles, Robustness