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

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

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

Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

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.

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

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.