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.

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.

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

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

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

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

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.