ARLINGTON, Va. -- Vinton Cerf sounded an alarm when some U.S. lawmakers wanted to fence off Internet pornography by creating a ".xxx" domain name: He...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- The Internet is for everyone, networking pioneer Vinton Cerf likes to say. And with it comes responsibilities for everyone -- people who use the Internet, technicians who build it, businesses...

...enforced on American firms alone, and much unsolicited e-mail originates from outside the country. As Internet legend Vinton Cerf recently said, the absence of global law makes spam laws hard to enforce. Even the most draconian laws won't stop...

...people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success," Vinton Cerf told a Senate committee recently. Cerf, who played a key role in building the Internet, is now the "Chief Internet...

...sites easier to find, they also might increase confusion. "Each one of these (selections) are of interest," said Vinton Cerf, ICANN's new chairman. "We want to know whether it works. We would like to find out whether there are any noticeable...

...into the several billions by 2006, but we don't really have enough address space to support all of this," said Vinton Cerf, who helped invent the Internet's communications building blocks. The communications matrix currently uses a string...

...questions search engines and computer desktop links that favor marketing partners and provide commercially biased results. Vinton Cerf, who invented the Internet communications protocols that made the Web possible, says Berners-Lee's "notion of...

...systems, each change requires a reboot. "Like it or not, you really do need a single root to make it all work," said Vinton Cerf, ICANN's chairman and one of the Net's technical pioneers. "I think there should be common ground rules...