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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.