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Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Re: Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Post by mark_l_watson »

mehulashah wrote: post #118

For all the naysayers in this thread, I gotta say you’re wrong. Vint is a class act. Humble, helpful, and optimistic. Not to mention one of the most impactful computer scientists of our generation.

Exactly right. I have only had one long conversation with him, but he was friendly and very interesting.

Re: Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Post by cyclopeanutopia »

everyone wrote: post #132
mehulashah wrote: post #118

For all the naysayers in this thread, I gotta say you’re wrong. Vint is a class act. Humble, helpful, and optimistic. Not to mention one of the most impactful computer scientists of our generation.

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Which ethics are you talking about?

Re: Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Post by sealeck »

everyone wrote: post #132
mehulashah wrote: post #118

For all the naysayers in this thread, I gotta say you’re wrong. Vint is a class act. Humble, helpful, and optimistic. Not to mention one of the most impactful computer scientists of our generation.

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There are few occupations in which a man can be more innocently employed than the pursuit of devising asynchronous network protocols?

Re: Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Post by Sesse__ »

throw0101a wrote: post #110
ayewo wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion, do you think Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) [1] stands a chance to fix the mistakes of IPv6 after more than 20 years now? Or there is too much inertia for IPv8 to overcome to become a truly backwards compatible extension / superset of IPv4? Part of the reasons for the slow adoption of IPv6 was that it was never designed to be backwards compatible unlike IPv8. 1: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/dr…

> In your opinion, do you think Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) [1] stands a chance to fix the mistakes of IPv6 after more than 20 years now? IPv8 solves precisely zero of the problems that is causing a 'slow' roll out of IPv6 / replacement of IPv4: """ So it's a matter of mathematical and physical fact that to expand the address size, you must change the protocol, and that means two things immediately: You have t…

> Actually, we tried that

I'm always fascinated by how many people think IPv6 adoption would have gone lightning-fast if we just used This One Weird Trick, where said trick has actually been tried and didn't help. They usually refuse to back down even after you tell them so.

Re: Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

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Post by cindyllm »

PaulHoule wrote: post #91

I was impressed with Vint Cerf when I saw him at a distance but once I had dealings with him about issues such as: the way the internet has become a pernicious influence, how the ACM is an industry group for computer science professors that doesn't support practitioners [1], the ACM's support for H-1B visas [2] I came to the conclusion that this quote is about him: “It is difficult to get a man to understand somethin…

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