Excited! Having breakfast tomorrow with Vint Cerf

Excited! Having breakfast tomorrow with Vint Cerf - "father of the Internet"

Written by Renato Cruz Sogueco

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 19:02

And to clarify, it's not just Vint and myself - right. It'll be a gathering of about 25 CIOs and IT Directors talking with Vint about Google's presence in DC, their nice collection of online Apps which work remarkably similar to many other well-known products, their intentions regarding security and government and more. Stay tuned, I'll post an update after the breakfast tomorrow.

Also, ping me with any questions you think I should ask- either leave a comment or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . I'd like to get his thoughts on the impact of net neutraility, which President Obama promised to reinstate. More about net neutraility from Wikipedia:

At its simplest network neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.^[7] Net neutrality advocates have established three principal definitions of network neutrality:

Absolute non-discrimination: Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu: "Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally." According to Imprint Magazine, University of Michigan Law School professor Susan Crawford "believes that a neutral Internet must forward packets on a first-come, first served basis, without regard for quality-of-service considerations."

Limited discrimination without QoS tiering: United States lawmakers have introduced bills that would allow quality of service discrimination as long as no special fee is charged for higher-quality service.

Limited discrimination and tiering: This approach allows higher fees for QoS as long as there is no exclusivity in service contracts. According to Tim Berners-Lee: "If I pay to connect to the Net with a given quality of service, and you pay to connect to the net with the same or higher quality of service, then you and I can communicate across the net, with that quality of service." "[We] each pay to connect to the Net, but no one can pay for exclusive access to me."

Even more on net neutraiity here.

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