Vint's advice to New Zealand's tech industry: get started now with IPv6 adoption. IPv6 was first developed in 1996 but adoption is still quite low. Businesses need to plan ahead to avoid "engineering in a crisis."
During his visit, Vint also delivered the keynote address at the
Internet Industry Awards, hosted in Wellington by the Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation. This was the first year for the awards to acknowledge and encourage Kiwi entrepreneurship in IT.
Vint Cerf with Peter Dengate Thrush, the current chair of ICANN,
at the Internet Industry Awards dinner on August 20, 2009.And of course, Vint also spent some time in New Zealand discussing the future of the Internet and what we can expect as more people and devices connect to the Web. Check out
this article in
The Sunday Star Times and
this interview on
RadioNZ to catch some of what he said.
