Spinning the Web Forward

Newsweek, November, 2005 by Michael Hastings

Vinton Cerf has been dubbed the father of the Internet, a label the 62-year-old Connecticut native rejects. "There are lots of fathers of the Internet," says the legendary computer scientist who worked on the original Department of Defense project in 1973. He now holds the title of Google's chief Internet evangelist and chairs ICANN--the main organization

responsible for assigning Internet domain names. ICANN, which is overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department, was subject to much debate at last week's U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, during which several nations pushed to take control away from the United States. NEWSWEEK's Michael Hastings asked Cerf for his thoughts on where the Web is headed. Excerpts:

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