“Vint Cerf takes his title of Chief Internet Evangelist for
Google seriously, and is knee-deep in several projects to bring the
next versions of the Internet into being. These projects include
pushing for worldwide IPv6 adoption, but they don’t include plans
for an IPv7.“Cerf sat down with Network World’s Cisco Subnet editor, Julie
Bort, at the annual Digital Broadband Migration conference in
Boulder, Colo., to discuss the future of IP, home networking, the
Internet of Things, preventing the so-called Internet “kill
switch,” and other topics. Here is part one of the edited
interview.“Is there, or will there be, an IPv7, and what new problems will
it solve?”
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