"Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf explains what ICANN is and how the Internet works

Vint Cerf looks to the future of the Internet

For most Internet users, working on the Web looks quite simple. Open the browser, enter the address of your favorite "contact", press "enter" and get what they wanted: correspondence with Masha from a neighboring department, a group of his company in a social network, on the development of which work is being done for more than a month.

Needless to say, behind the apparent simplicity - a very complex infrastructure, a huge number of systems and subsystems that provide the network. In general, on Habré to talk about it even somehow uncomfortable, everyone already knows it.
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But the other day came an interesting movie created by Google with the participation of Vint Cerf. In the video, very colorful, by the way, tells about what constitutes ICANN, how this organization works and the domain / server infrastructure under its control, and why all this is needed.


The video below is full of Internet memes.

In addition, Vint Cerf talks about why global change benefits the future of the Internet.

Actually, if you know all this, anyway, the video is worth a look - at least in order to show it to someone who is more or less aware of the principle of operation of the Network, but does not fully understand the full depth of the idea.