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

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

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

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

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

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.