Vint Cerf: Regrets, I have a few

Stefan Mileschin · 27th September 2016, 17:33

Father of the Internet Vint Cerf says that there are a few things he would do differently if given a second chance to recreate it.

During a press conference at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, Cerf said that he would have put in a 128-bit address space so we wouldn’t have to go through this painful, 20-year process of going from IPv4 to IPv6.

IPv4, the first publicly used version of the Internet Protocol, included an addressing system that used 32-bit numerical identifiers which rapidly ran out of addresses.

Cerf would also have added public key cryptography.

http://www.techeye.net/business/vint...s-i-have-a-few

27th September 2016, 17:33	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,553	Vint Cerf: Regrets, I have a few Father of the Internet Vint Cerf says that there are a few things he would do differently if given a second chance to recreate it. During a press conference at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, Cerf said that he would have put in a 128-bit address space so we wouldn’t have to go through this painful, 20-year process of going from IPv4 to IPv6. IPv4, the first publicly used version of the Internet Protocol, included an addressing system that used 32-bit numerical identifiers which rapidly ran out of addresses. Cerf would also have added public key cryptography. http://www.techeye.net/business/vint...s-i-have-a-few

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