Cerf’s Up

I see that Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today – the highest civilian honour in the US. It’s being awarded for their work on the TCP/IP protocols – the core networking protocols of the Internet.

 

Interestingly, the award comes on the day when the US Congress is debating a bill that could fundamentally alter the way in which the Internet is run, giving rise to concerns that broadband operators will govern the nature of activity on the Internet. Cerf shares those concerns, so he has written to Congress about them. Here’s hoping that Congress pays him some attention.