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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP a...

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I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the In...

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

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Born: 1943-08-06

Died: 1998-10-16

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist. He was the first and longest-serving editor of the ARPANET (later Internet) RFC document series, and wrote or edited many of protocol standards still used in the Internet today.More

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