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Jon Postel

American Scientist

Born: Aug 6, 1943

Died: Oct 16, 1998

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Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

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

Valuable Group Very Discussion Productive Less Drafting

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

You Conservative Others Liberal Accept

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

Together People Internet Because Lot Works Cooperate Things

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

Address Seek Name How Get Where Route

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

God Me Internet Think Closest Closest Thing Thing

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

First Net Student Involved Got Site Graduate Graduate Student

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. Jon Postel

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. Jon Postel

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

Good Home Pretty Pretty Good Computer Connection

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

Nice Web Put Stuff Via Done Really Interface User

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

Time Good Decision Made Long Address Bits Out One Of The Things About Having Small Could Computers IP Than Size Anyone Turned Much Many Ever Larger Things Number Imagine

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

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

Home Speed Way Systems High One-Way Cable Over Get

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

Home People Speed Tremendous Ought Higher Soon Crunch Access Got Bandwidth Going Much Really Planning

Being in the limelight has its minuses. Jon Postel

Limelight Being

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. Jon Postel

Space Internet Address Administer Names Also Operation Protocol Domain Authority Essential Conventions Which Central Use Coordinator Assigned

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