Oldie and Goodie: Vint Cerf on an Internet Retrospective

Vint Cerf, credited as one of the fathers of the Internet, and also a member of the Greyglers gave a talk reflecting on the successes and mistakes of the design of the 'Net.

Highlights:

• Why does IPv4 (our current addressing system) only have 32-bits? Answer.
• What would have the Internet been like if there was protocol support for user identification, encryption and content signing?  Answer.
• Cerf mentions an NSF program: FIND, dedicated to intelligently remaking the Internet (ref).

If you're at all interested in the history of the Internet and want to hear some juicy details of where "some of the bodies lay," this is worth the hour.