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1 day ago · Jon Postel (1943–1998) was a researcher at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Information Sciences Institute (ISI). He was editor of much of the early the RFC series as well as versions 3 and 4 of TCP/IP in January 1978 and February 1979, and the final version of TCP and Internet Protocol, which were published in January 1980 by ...
4 days ago · Jon does an excellent job at introducing lesser-known but equally helpful laws. For example, Postel’s Law states, “be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”This principle is about creating resilient designs and anticipating the varied ways users could interact with the product.
2 days ago · This is based on the robustness principle of Internet pioneer Jonathan Postel, which states that systems are particularly robust if they process the receipt of data as flexibly and tolerantly as possible, but strictly comply with the rules or expectations of the recipient when sending data. 9. large and close targets are easier to hit.
5 days ago · (Agenda photocopy) Speakers included Vint Cerf (who was at MCI), Jon Postel (RFC Editor and at ARPANET before playing a key role in internet administration), and Paul Mockapetris and Bob Braden (both at USC-ISI).
3 days ago · Development of the DNS Protocol The DNS protocol was designed by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel in 1983, and the first formal specifications were given by RFCs 882 and 883, which were superseded by RFCs 1034 and 1035 in 1987 (Castro et al., 2010). RFCs served as a blueprint for DNS architecture and showed that it comprised a hierarchical ...
5 days ago · British researchers expressed a desire to use a country designation when American researchers Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris were designing the Domain Name System in 1984. Postel adopted this idea for the DNS, which used the ISO standard country abbreviations except for following the "UK" convention already in use in the UK's Name Registration Scheme , rather than the ISO-standard "GB".
5 days ago · Global Arts Studies, B.A. In addition to adhering to General Education and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Requirements , the Global Arts Studies major requires at least 52 units (some of which simultaneously meet general education requirements). Courses in the major must be taken for a letter grade, and specifically may not be ...
