Jon Postel Quotes

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Not all traffic is created equal. In the 5G future, mission-critical apps such as remote surgery will have to take priority over other traffic. There will need to be a regulatory regime that allows the service provider to create services that are differentiated based on user experiences.

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

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

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

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

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.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

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

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

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.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

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.

I really enjoy computer networking.

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

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

The availability of reliable and redundant communications is critical for our public safety.