There is news, and, from time to time, wonderful news. This wonderful news. -Gene Gaines >From www.forbes.com Faces In The News Google Hires Internet Legend Vint Cerf David M. Ewalt, 09.08.05, 12:06 PM ET Cerf's up: Google says it's boosting the company's already strong geek cred by hiring Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to serve as its "Chief Internet Evangelist." Cerf, 62, was an engineer at the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982, where he helped design TCP/IP, the suite of communications protocols that is used to connect computers on the Internet. Later, while working at MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), he helped design the first commercial e-mail service to be connected to the Internet. He's the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Association for Computing Machinery's "Turing Award," and is chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. "Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, in a statement. "His vision for technology helped create entire industries that have transformed many parts of our lives. We are honored to welcome him to Google." In his role as Google's Internet Evangelist, Cerf will help the company build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications. He will also continue his efforts on other projects, including ICANN and the Interplanetary Network, a project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, which aims to extend the Internet into outer space for planet-to-planet communications. Source: www.forbes.com/2005/09/08/google-cerf-internet-cx_de_0908autofacescan04.html _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf