Brian Carpenter

Carl Malamud interviews Brian Carpenter, Director for networking at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. As one of the most active networking sites in the world, Carpenter has to deal with a signficant operational environment. Carpenter discusses how he deals with issues such as the OSI and DECnet Phase V protocols and his views on the future of the Internet.

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