I saw Vinton Cerf lecture (The Father of the Internet)

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Last night I went and saw Vinton Cerf lecture. If you dont know who this is, he was the co-founder of TCP/IP.

He talked about how he is helping build an inter-planetary network, and they are designing a new protocol for this. Due to the extremely high latency between planets (it could be several hours) they need a new, more robust protocol.

He said they are working on getting Mars networked, then from there Venus, etc.

[Markel]

When MCI came up with the idea for MCI Mail, Vint Cerf was the head of the project. MCI Mail contracted with the company I worked for to provide for certain services for MCI Mail, and I ended up being the project leader. I got to go to Washington, D.C. several times for the vendor meetings on the project, which were run by Vint. He was a very likeable person.

[Ladogaboy]

It's always nice to hear a lecture from a bigwig, as long as they are articulate and charismatic.

[leemaj]

hmm...what if we used the interplanetary protocol for p2p networks...imagine speeds a gazillion times faster than a meager T3