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Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn Awarded Medal of Freedom

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-mine dept.

3l1za writes ""President Bush on Thursday announced the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award." Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- for their design of "the software code used to transmit data over the Internet" -- are among those to be honored next Wednesday. "

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  1. Why is he giving it now? Why not years ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think he's handing out the award now, because Vint Cerf (ICANN director) is backing Bush's proposal for US controlled DNS and taking Google with him.

    Whether you agree or disagree with the USA control of DNS, if Vint Cerf was deserving of the award then he should have got it years ago, not JUST BEFORE a meeting on the future control of the Internet on 18th November.