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

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

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

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

Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.