RFC (Request for Comments) document: RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981)
This is often mistakenly attributed to Jon Postel, but it is actually a very slight variation on a quotation from John Shoch; both RFC-791 and its earlier version RFC-760 include, at the point in the text where this passage appears, a reference to Shoch's paper Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing, which is the original source of this observation.
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“The 'name' of a resource indicates what we seek, an 'address' indicates where it is, and a 'route' tells us how to get there.”
IEN (Internet Experiment Note) document: IEN 19 http://postel.org/ien/txt/ien19.txt, A note on Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing (January, 1982)
This quotation is often erroneously attributed to Jon Postel.
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