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I had the pleasure of meeting Vint Cerf last august when he visited University of Nebraska to talk about the history of the Internet and his involvement (him an
by natural219 14y ago
I had the pleasure of meeting Vint Cerf last august when he visited University of Nebraska to talk about the history of the Internet and his involvement (him and Bob Kahn wrote the whitepaper on TCP), internet policy / issues, problems with network security, and challenges with modern network engineering. He discussed in length how he would re-design TCP in the context of inter-planetary networking -- it was an incredibly fascinating talk.
I have met very few people who are as informed, passionate, and enjoyable to listen to as Dr. Cerf. His depth of knowledge of software policy issues is astounding, from international networking standards / last August's ITU meetings to the future issues of bit rot and data standardization. Overall, nice move by the Obama administration.
- robertelder 14y agoFor those who are interested, here is a TED talk that vint gave about inter-planetary internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmYm3gMYOQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmYm3gMYOQ
- michaelkscott 14y agoWatched the video but I honestly can't tell if he's trolling or not ;)
- da02 14y agoI don't think he is trolling. The idea may be related to how Licklider wanted an intergalactic network: https://www.google.com/search?q=1969+the+intergalactic+network https://www.google.com/search?q=1969+the+intergalactic+netwo... Licklider knew engineers do what they are told and nothing else. So: give them a really big project or else they won't implement beyond the specifications. It seemed to worked since the Internet has been scalable. Alan Kay, every year, talks about Licklider's intergalactic network in his history of computing talk: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alan+kay http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alan+kay
- andyjohnson0 14y agoDefinitely not a troll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet Delay-tolerant network stacks have been deployed on NASA spacecraft.