TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.

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.

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.

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

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.

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.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

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

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

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

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

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

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

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

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

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

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

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.