The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
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.
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
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.
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.
Being in the limelight has its minuses.
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.
A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.
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.
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
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.
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.
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.
