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“Un nome indica quanto cerchiamo. Un indirizzo indica dov'è. Una via indica come arrivarci.”

“In generale, un'installazione deve essere prudente nel suo comportamento in invio, e liberale nel suo comportamento in ricezione.”

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“Le installazioni TCP seguiranno un principio generale di robustezza: sii prudente in quello che fai, sii liberale in quanto accetti dagli altri.”

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“Credo che mi abbiano definito la cosa più vicina a un Dio di Internet. Ma alla fine, quell'articolo non era molto complimentoso, perché l'autore ha suggerito che io non stessi facendo un lavoro molto buono, e che avrei dovuto essere sostituito da un "professionista".
Ovviamente, non c'è nessun "Dio di Internet". Internet funziona perché molta gente coopera per fare cose insieme.”

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“Ha lavorato tranquillamente per anni come guardiano delle RFC e arbitro finale in questioni tecniche dove l'unanimità non avrebbe potuto essere raggiunta. Postel credeva che le le decisioni che aveva preso nel corso del suo lavoro negli anni fossero state per il bene della comunità e che fondare una compagnia per lucrare su queste attività sarebbe equivalso a una violazione della fiducia pubblica.”

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Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late, 1996

“Dio, almeno in Occidente, è spesso rappresentato come un uomo con una barba fluente e i sandali… se la Rete ha un dio, questo è probabilmente Jon Postel, un uomo che uguaglia questa descrizione a una T. Il diritto del signor Postel alla divinità informatica, al di là delle apparenza, deriva dal fatto che è il presidente e, in realtà, l'unico membro della Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [autorità dei numeri della Rete assegnati], l'organismo che coordina quasi tutti gli indirizzi di Internet.”

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da The Economist, 8 febbraio 1997

Jon Postel: Frasi in inglese

“Of course, there isn’t any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.”

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When asked "What do you think of being called a god?" in "Heavenly Father of the NET", an interview article in NetWorker (Summer 1997); This refers to a statement "if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel", which appeared in the British magazine The Economist.
Contesto: 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.

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

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Jon Postel RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol

The "Robustness Principle", RFC 793 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0793.txt, Transmission Control Protocol, entire text of section 2.10 (September 1981).

“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.”

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RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981) <br class="br">Often shortened to Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

“A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.”

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RFC (Request for Comments) document: RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981) <br class="br">This is often mistakenly attributed to Jon Postel, but it is actually a very slight variation on a quotation from John Shoch; both RFC-791 and its earlier version RFC-760 include, at the point in the text where this passage appears, a reference to Shoch's paper Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing, which is the original source of this observation. <br class="br">Misattributed

“He worked quietly for years as keeper of the RFCs and final arbiter in technical matters when consensus couldn’t be reached. Postel believed that decisions he had made in the course of his work over the years had been for the good of the community and that starting a company to profit from those activities would have amounted to a violation of public trust.”

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Where Wizards Stay Up Late (1996) by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

“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."”

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Of course, there isn’t any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
When asked "What do you think of being called a god?" in "Heavenly Father of the NET", an interview article in NetWorker (Summer 1997); This refers to a statement "if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel", which appeared in the British magazine The Economist.

“God, at least in the West, is often represented as a man with a flowing beard and sandals… if the Net does have a god, he is probably Jon Postel, a man who matches that description to a T. Mr. Postel's claim to cyber-divinity, besides his appearance, is that he is the chairman and, in effect, the sole member of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the organization that coordinates almost all Internet addresses.”

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The Economist (1997-02-08).