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…

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel

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

- Jon Postel