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.

I 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.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

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

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

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.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.