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 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.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

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.

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

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

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.