English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Jon Postel Quotes

Jon Postel quotes

American Scientist August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998

Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

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
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
Jon Postel quote: "But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN..."
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection. Jon Postel
TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. Jon Postel
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
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
Jon Postel quote: "I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA..."
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. Jon Postel
Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be. Jon Postel
Jon Postel quote: "I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the..."
I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. Jon Postel
Jon Postel quote: "The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do..."
The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together. Jon Postel
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
Jon Postel quote: "All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really..."
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. 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
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. Jon Postel
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

Popular Author

Related Authors