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

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

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

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

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

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet p….

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 ni….

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

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 co….

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational..

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with t….

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

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggest….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior..

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….

Being in the limelight has its minuses..

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