Vinton Cerf AES Identifying His Hoped For Legacy

A student's prompt posing a question to Vinton Cerf (born 1943), one of the so-called "fathers of the internet." Cerf has responded to the question in a 21-word handwritten response signed at the conclusion as "Vint Cerf." On a sheet of gray speckled paper. Near pristine. 8.5" x 11."

When asked the questions, "What would you like to be remembered for? What kind of legacy would you like to leave?", Vinton Cerf inscribed and signed the following response:

"I hope people will remember that Bob Kahn and I deliberately gave the design freely to the world without any limitations.

Vint Cerf."

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (born 1938) had proposed a design and methodology for establishing the internet in their seminal article, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication," published in the May 1974 issue of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) "Transactions on Communications," Vol. Com-22, No. 5. From the beginning, Cerf and Kahn agreed that the internet should have an open design, without restrictions, patents, or copyrights. Part of this decision was based on the practical consideration, that, once released, the internet could not (and should not) be controlled by its original designers. Another motivation was more philosophical: that the internet, like Jonas Salk's life-saving polio vaccine, should be free to the world.

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