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

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

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

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.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.