An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.