I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
Jon PostelBut 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.
Jon PostelA name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
Jon PostelI think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Jon Postel