I just found out that Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and current Google employee, will be giving a talk in the Seattle area later today. I’ll be attending the talk and have a list of questions I’d like to ask during the Q&A session. However I suspect that a number of my readers likely have better questions than those I can come up with. Here are my questions, let me know what you think of them and suggest better ones if you don’t like mine

• Why did he decide to leave MCI, a company steeped in networking technology, to join Google, an advertising and search engine company, as Chief Internet Evangelist?  

• He has spoken out on Google's behalf in favor of net neutrality. However there seem to be many different definitions of Net Neutrality, which definition is Google in favor of and why?

• Google just pledged to spending up to $4.6 billion to license the 700MHz wireless spectrum in what the company has described as the most significant auction of wireless spectrum in history by the U.S. federal government. Why is this auction so significant and what kind of services can we expect from Google if it wins the auction? 

• Net neutrality gets a lot of press, however there are other issues facing the Internet as well. What keeps him up at night besides net neutrality? Botnets? Government censorship of the Internet? Concerns that we’ll never upgrade from the current version of the ‘net since it is already so entrenched around the world?

As usual, I’ll blog the proceedings as a Trip Report. 

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