Frases de Jon Postel

Jonathan Bruce Postel foi um cientista da computação estadunidense.

Jon Postel contribuiu significativamente para a o desenvolvimento da Internet, particularmente com respeito a normas. É conhecido principalmente por ser o editor da séries de documentos Request for Comments e pela administração do Internet Assigned Numbers Authority até sua morte. O Prêmio Postel da Internet Society é nomeado em sua honra, bem como o Centro Postel no Information Sciences Institute. Seu obituário foi escrito por Vint Cerf e publicado como RFC 2468 em memória de Postel e sua obra. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Agosto 1943 – 16. Outubro 1998
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Jon Postel: Frases em inglês

“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.
Contexto: 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.”

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.”

RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981)
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.”

RFC (Request for Comments) document: RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981)
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.
Misattributed

“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.
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.