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Vinton Cerf

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

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Vinton Cerf was deeply motivated to create a solution that allowed the Defense Department to avoid relying on a single company's network system or being limited to one type of network technology. His goal was to develop a flexible and open networking approach that could work across different systems without proprietary restrictions.

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