Vint Cerf: 'The Internet Is For Everyone'

Joel Rowbottom writes "Vint Cerf has written a damn fine RFC (3271), entitled 'The Internet Is For Everyone'. It's a good, well-balanced document which details the 'Internet Society's ideology' about the growth of the 'Net, where we can go now, and where we might be in some years' time. Worth a read."

Comments

Re:1000 million?

[Jhan]

...hardly anybody uses the old British billion definition any more

Phfft. Hardly anyone except every nation .neq. UK or US. Million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard. This has the wanted property that eg. a trillion is 1,000,000^3, and so a xllion has x*6 zeros. This is not true in the american system.

Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Färöarna, France, Germany and most of UK. Those are the ones I am 100% sure of. The ones I think use the European system (but am not totally sure of) is: All the rest of Europe, all of Africa, all of Asia except Australia and New Zeeland (?), most of South America.

It's just like the way the americans are refusing to accept SI units, when every other country uses them. But I guess, if it's the American Way, it is the Right Way. And if we refuse to admit this, the USA will be happy to bomb us into submission :-)