Vint Cerf on Google spectrum and the new "Die Hard"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Steve Stroh.  DLH]

Vint Cerf on Google spectrum and the new "Die Hard"
Posted by Brier Dudley at 07:05 PM
<http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2007/07/ 
vint_cerf_on_google_spectrum_a_1.html>
The Internet can sometimes feel intimidating and even dangerous, but  
I'm glad to report that the guy who got the thing started is very  
nice and approachable.

Vint Cerf is also funny -- early on he had a T-shirt made that said  
"IP on everything."

Cerf, a key architect of the network and its military predecessor,  
now works at Google as a telecom policy expert and traveling sage who  
regularly visits the company's offices around the world.  
(Technically, he's vice president and "chief Internet evangelist.")

Today he was speaking at Google's Kirkland office before heading  
north to Vancouver for the GeoWeb conference on the intersection of  
the Web and geographic information systems.

I was one of the local reporters Google invited to meet with Cerf  
before his talk. (Interestingly, Google also invited Microsoft  
blogger Dare Obasanjo to interview him.)

In hiring Cerf, 64, Google is following the same path Microsoft did  
when it began hiring old lions such as Gordon Bell and Jim Gray,  
whose early research built its industry.

They're more than figureheads, though, and Cerf's experience with  
regulating emerging networks is particularly useful now that Google's  
trying to enter the telecommunications business and bidding on new  
spectrum the government is auctioning off this year.

I asked whether Google will be known primarily as a telecom company  
in five or 10 years. Cerf said it's still unclear what Google would  
do with wireless spectrum if it wins the auction.

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