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Updated: June 21, 2004
More than 30 years ago, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn hatched the
underlying protocol of the Internet--TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). The Internet took more than 20
years to reach a mass audience, but in the last seven years the population of Web users has gone from 50 million to more than
800 million. Cerf, who is also senior vice president of technology strategy at MCI, continues to steward the Internet in his
role as chairman of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international
organization responsible for IP address space allocation, top-level domain name system management, root server system
management, and other functions.
Vint Cerf: Internet is moving into 'Iron Age'
Videocast: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf contends that the Internet is still early in its
evolution, in the process of moving from a figurative stone age to an iron age. In his Face to Face interview with ZDNet
Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Cerf discusses the future evolution of the Internet and outlines his views on spam, privacy, IPv6
and interplanetary networking. He also talks about his role as a steward for the Internet and answers the question of "who
should run the Internet."
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