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

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

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

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

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.

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.