Quote to Note: A Father of the Internet and a Googler to Boot

July 7, 2020

DarkCyber spotted this quote from Vint Cerf. I once introduced him at a conference and he displayed a T shirt with the message “I TCP on Everything!”

Here’s the Cerf quote from Diginomica:

When you see a phenomenon like the Internet, which is rich in its evolution, new ideas, new applications, it is a very open architecture and invites people to invent new ways of using it. But this introduces new kinds of governance concerns: what we do about misinformation, about malware which is propagating through the network, about someone in one country who is harmed by someone in another.  For anyone who is interested in governance, there is simply a wide open space here for hard work and for international agreements, in order to manage this very complex and very rich environment that we call the Internet, and the World Wide Web.

Interesting phrasing. We noted the words misinformation, malware, and governance.

Governance is particularly interesting; for example, what does governance mean in this sentence:

But this introduces new kinds of governance concerns.

Yes, that is true if the quote is accurate. If any company knows anything about governance, I would submit it is the Google.

Stephen E Arnold, July 7, 2020

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