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.

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.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

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.

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

Being in the limelight has its minuses.