Jon Postel Quotes

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

I really enjoy computer networking.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

The basic technical protocols that have enabled the Internet to work in such a globally interconnected way are developed and shared openly by a community of engineers.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.