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

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

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 computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

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

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

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

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.