Top 5 Jon Postel Quotes

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

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

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.

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