Jon Postel

“The DNS is a hierarchical system. This has the great advantage of distributing the responsibility for management of the names.”

“A name is a handle. It is not an address. A name is a way to identify a resource.”

“There is an old saying, 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke.' There is a corollary, 'But do fix it before it breaks.'”

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

“The Internet is a global resource and its management should be a global concern.”

“RFCs are not standards. We are in the business of building running systems, not papers.”

“We should try to make the IANA functions a neutral, honest, and reliable, service to the whole Internet community.”