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Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

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

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

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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.

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Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

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

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

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

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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 6th, 1943

Died: October 16th, 1998

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