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<h1><a id="VintonCerf"></a>Vinton Cerf</h1>
<p>I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Vinton Cerf give a talk at LSU on September 30, 2003. Below are the notes I took. He was rushing through part of his talk, so I missed stuff here and there. Hopefully this will be of interest to someone. Also I think his outline is on the web somewhere.</p>
<hr /><h1><a id="InternetPastAndFuture"></a>Internet Past and Future</h1>
<h3><a id="LSU9302003"></a>LSU, 9/30/2003</h3>
<p>Introduced by LSU Chancellor:<br />co-designer of TCP/IP<br />MCI engineer<br />DARPA<br />Internet Society<br />IEEE<br />ACS<br />&#8230;etc.</p>
<h1><a id="Personal"></a>Personal</h1>
<ul>
<li>magazine spreads, him and wife, friendly cometition about it</li>
<li>wife has cochlear implant, previously unable to hear &#8212; after 30 years of marriage, she finally had a conversation with Vint after operation</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="InternetHistory"></a>Internet history</h1>
<p>New Aphorism:<br /> power corrupts<br /> powerpoint corrupts absolutely</p>
<ul>
<li>www.isoc.org/internet/history</li>
<li>arpanet &#8212; 1969</li>
<li>packet switching</li>
<li>50kbps</li>
</ul>
<h3><a id="MilitaryCommandAndControl"></a>military command and control</h3>
<ul>
<li>packet radio (mid 70s): collision network</li>
<li>Hawaii &#8212; 2 channel, half-duplex, sat, multiple ground stations (the ALOHA system)</li>
</ul>
<p>packet speech 30 years ago</p>
<p>packet video &#8212; late 70s</p>
<h1><a id="GlobalStatistics"></a>global statistics</h1>
<ul>
<li>1997 &#8212; 22.5M hosts (I missed the number of users)</li>
<li>2003 &#8212; 171M hosts 605M</li>
<li>europe has more users than US, far east catching up fast</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="IP"></a>IP</h1>
<ul>
<li>layering of protocols</li>
<li>IP is neck of hourglass (lower and upper layers support diverseness)</li>
<li>US regulations ill-suited for Inet</li>
<li>radio, TV, telephone, etc..... regs for each one</li>
<li>IP doesn&#39;t care what goes over it</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="MajorTechnologicalIssues"></a>major technological issues</h1>
<ul>
<li>reliabiliy/availability</li>
<li>security</li>
<li>broadband
<ul>
<li>(access, symmetry, not competitive)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>GRID (virtualization of everything)
<ul>
<li>problems similar to beowulf clusters: number crunching vs. communication latencies</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>privacy</li>
<li>authentication</li>
<li>data integrity</li>
<li>IPv6 implementationinternet-enabled appliances (java invented for this. Vint didn&#39;t mention this, but did refer to net-enabled refrigerators later)</li>
<li>security for all these devices</li>
<li>IP telephones</li>
<li>SIP &#8212; NAPTR: X digits to IP phones</li>
<li>net fridges: emailing you that you need to buy milk, etc.</li>
<li>histories of daily-use things (wine corks, etc).</li>
<li>missing sock problem</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="IPAddressConsumption"></a>IP address consumption</h1>
<ul>
<li>he takes blame for 32 bits in 70s</li>
<li>NAT interferes with security (??? &#8212; possibly IPsec auth-type issues?)</li>
<li>nano engines, none smaller than 46 molecules, will have enough IPv6 space for them (???? &#8212; I missed this part)</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="PolicyDiscussionTopics"></a>policy discussion topics</h1>
<ul>
<li>flat-rate business models</li>
<li>IP</li>
<li>ICANN (I missed it)</li>
<li>flat-rate</li>
<li>Inet is fixed-proce</li>
<li>SIP telephony is taking us there</li>
<li>MCI&#39;s Neighborhood and Advantage services are insensitive of underlying technology</li>
<li>issues: cost and pricing compatible?</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="RegulatingTelecoms"></a>regulating telecoms</h1>
<ul>
<li>advocates opening IP broadband to all ISPs, like phone service</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Taxation"></a>taxation</h1>
<ul>
<li>people</li>
<li>services &amp; products sold</li>
<li>no sales taxes (what about use taxes? this idea again (he didn&#39;t raise it of course) )</li>
<li>censorship</li>
<li>technologically flawed model</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="SecurityAndPrivacy"></a>security and privacy</h1>
<ul>
<li>tension between goals</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="FutureLook"></a>future look</h1>
<ul>
<li>deep space network madrid, australia, california</li>
<li>radio-isotope power supplies</li>
<li>store&amp;forward network, major lag</li>
<li>Mars: 1mbps transmitting back ()</li>
<li>InterPlaNet</li>
<li>next mission cantake advantage of previous mission, existing relays, etc.</li>
<li>40 minute lags at times, uncertainties of transimssion, TCP/IP can&#39;t work here</li>
<li>disconnect protocols, like email</li>
<li>Interplanetary Planet Protocol (I missed this, verify this, I think it&#39;s ICP or something...)</li>
<li>sending bundles of information</li>
<li>by 2012, have 2-planet internet</li>
</ul>
<h1><a id="Links"></a>Links</h1>
<ul>
<li>mci.com/cerfsup</li>
<li>livinginetnet.com</li>
<li>ipnig.org</li>
<li>iiso.org/internet</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Chancellor: will have other speakers later</strong><br /><br />Questions</p>
<h3><a id="Dotbomb"></a>dot-bomb</h3>
<ul>
<li>capital vs revenue,</li>
<li>only invest in things that you understand, both company and tehnology</li>
</ul>
<h3><a id="MulticastingWhyFailed"></a>multicasting, why failed?</h3>
<ul>
<li>streaming audion/video used instead; sufficient bandwidth</li>
<li>others techs, restructured</li>
</ul>
<h3><a id="Censorship"></a>censorship</h3>
<ul>
<li>he&#39;s against it, naurally :-)</li>
<li>abuse of anonymitiy, terrorism</li>
<li>accountability from govt, tech fighting back for anonymous communication</li>
<li>can&#39;t stop technology</li>
</ul>
<h3><a id="MarsProbePowerSupplies"></a>mars probe power supplies</h3>
<p>USN used fission power supplies for 40 years</p>
<h3><a id="OpticalSwitchingBackboneNetworks"></a>optical switching, backbone networks</h3>
<ul>
<li>regions of fast &amp; slow switching</li>
<li>differnt colors of light&#8230; switch off that (cool!)</li>
<li>optical packet switching (photons)</li>
<li>loop a burst, gate off a small portion, decide where it will go, then let burst out of loop</li>
</ul>

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