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Jon Postel Quotes

d. 1998

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist. He was the first and longest-serving editor of the ARPANET (later Internet) RFC document series, and wrote or edited many of protocol standards still used in the Internet today.

Also known as: Postel, Jon

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Of course, there isn’t any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

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

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jon Postel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.