User:Sergeyd/interesting statements in the interview with Paul Mockapetris

The first thought I found interesting in the interview was that all the technologies that are being created solve current existing problems of their time. And the authors of these technologies would’ve never created them if they would know all the future applications of their ideas. When DNS was developed it wasn’t a very important problem at that time, therefore Paul Mockapetris and his team could innovate without the pressure. Nowadays it is much harder to create something as essential as DNS.

The second statement I would like to review is about characteristics of the technologies. “I build the first and maybe the second floor,” Paul Mockapetris said, “being able to build the next stage of something and let people continue on above you I think is key characteristic of the technology”. I agree with Paul on this idea, especially when we talk about Internet technologies. As we’ve already learned from our Web Science MOOC in the Internet protocols are built one on top of another and there are more and more introduced extending the functionality of basic Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols. Following this principle of allowing other applications to work on top of yours is a good style of modeling new technologies.

Lastly, Paul Mockapetris had a couple of interesting phrases about security in his interview. “People build apps long before making them secure,” he said. And it is exactly like it happens. We often see a lot of vulnerabilities in newly released software, because consumers are often more interested in functionality and usability then in security of the application. “That’s the way people are”, said Paul about it. I think, security may become one of the largest fields for development in the future.