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2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Kees Neggers

presented by Kees Neggers

It’s obvious that the Internet is a tremendous success, and the world is not prepared to live without it anymore. At the same time, it has never been designed to provide the services it is assumed to do today.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Henning Schulzrinne

presented by Henning Schulzrinne

We’ve designed systems not really well anticipating the kind of users that would really use them, thinking that they would—or maybe not even thinking—that they would be used in the same way that they were in the 1980s and 1990s.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: James Galvin

presented by James Galvin

The greatest threat to the security and stability of our Internet today is distributed attacks, distributed denial of service attacks in particular. The Internet was built on a foundation of it works because everybody cooperates and we all agree. And that was a great environment when you pretty much could name everybody who was on the Internet, or you got to where you could name all the sites and you know, you could name all the organizations.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Ralph Droms

presented by Ralph Droms

We’re at a time of huge expansion of the Internet outside of the kinds of Internet connections and devices that we’re familiar with. We’ve seen some of that over the past few years as we’ve moved from laptops, desktop computers, to smartphones and tablets and we’ve seen a big increase. Right now instead of a tablet and a laptop at home, you’ve got a tablet, two iPhones, and a desktop computer.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Rudi Vansnick

presented by Rudi Vansnick

I was participating in a European Commission project, and it was really a surprising period. In less than ten years, the whole Internet changed.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Tracy Licklider

presented by Tracy Licklider

I think he would to some extent be surprised that business has hijacked the Internet in a certain sense. That the entertainment industry…I’ll just pick on them but other industries too, that’ve basically exploited that sort of delivery vehicle that was made not really with them in mind but they have gained such a dominant position in dictating how and where the Internet goes.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Glenn Ricart

presented by Glenn Ricart

In some ways, I helped put the “inter” into the Internet because it was the first time these administratively-different networks were connected together and could connect together as they wished.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Gihan Dias

presented by Gihan Dias

There’s lots of fears. So one major fear would be privacy. So privacy is something which we used to take for granted. Now we cannot. The other major fear I have is centralization.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: George Sadowsky

presented by George Sadowsky

I would hope that ten or twenty years from now we live in a world in which Internet access is taken almost for granted, and that it’s conceivable that the Internet—the name “Internet”—will actually fade and we’ll just consider it part of the infrastructure that we’re used to just like you know, there’ll be a plug in the wall for information services over the Internet.

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: François Flückiger

presented by François Flückiger

The main fear I have, and I believe most of my colleagues have, is to see the Internet more fragmented than it is, and much more fragmented than we wanted it to be. When we designed it, we developed technology which was due to be open, which means that everyone knows the technology, everyone can develop it, and everyone can improve it as well.