There was one issue on which ...

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

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
 Jon Postel
Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
 Jon Postel
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.
 Jon Postel