The Internet–Vint Cerf’s re-think of its architecture

Dr. Vint Cerf - often called the "Father of the Internet", nevertheless chief Internet evangelist at Google - gave a fascinating recent lecture at Stanford University about the Internet's development, its successes, surprises along the way,  areas where it hasn't succeeded, and ways that it should be improved.

He discusses the history of the Internet for the first 40 minutes or so, at that time in the final 20 minutes of his hour-long presentation shares his views on how the Internet needs to be improved.

Many topics are covered, just as the original ARPANET, IP addressing, the importance of the Internet's open architecture, growth of the Web user population, error recovery and performance.

Some other matters discussed include internationalization of top level domains, security weaknesses and privacy problems, Cloud collaboration, unresolved Internet technology problems, virtualization, authentication/identity/authorization issues, governance, and much more.

There's a fascinating discussion of problems he experienced with remote control of the temperature in his wine cellar, and the need for and an "InterPlaNetary" Internet - why TCP/IP wasn't effective for such highly-disrupted and variably-delayed transmission environments.

Similar vein

In a similar vein, why not learn more by listening to the various segments of An Audio History of the Internet from the National Public Radio Archives?