so i met them. bob kahn and vint cerf. yes both are good guys. actually i like bob kahn, he is not the trained media person (sounds strange but i got this feeling) as vint cerf, who is charming. no doubt. he is still working on this interplanetary network, even they call it now more often delay tolerant network. some of the work will be used for the wireless network and to solve the problem of voip, he hopes. anyhow, that's for business and getting funding, i guess. the real plan is still to combine mars with earth in 2009. even with a delay of propagation time of 20minutes or 30? i have to look up the distance and speed of light ...

kahn is still into the handle system, the digital object identifier. both, kahn and cerf are on the trip to get over dns. in outer space it dosn't work anyhow, cerf says and on earth there is a need to combine dns not just with an address but content. again a metadata story.

bob kahn was sitting between two chairs as tech person. he joined darpa after organizing the historic iccc conference 1972 and was chief of ipto later one, dealing with both sites: the bureaucrates and researchers. and yes the diversity in his biography comes somewhere out of that.