To keep going with my VoIP thread of the week, CNet has a interview with Vint Cerf.

I like the way he sees VoIP:

[…] VoIP starts the natural progression of another modality that the Internet can support. It also changes the whole of the telephony world substantially, so (VoIP) is hard to ignore.

And wouldn’t that be nice:

Q:You view VoIP as just one of several next-generation services. What are some of the other services?
A:There are several already showing up. You can show up at a hotel and register your normal telephone number–as long as you can plug in your PC to an Internet service. What that means is your visibility in the communications world is now portable. Wherever you are, your communications are (there also). You can control where things go. If someone’s trying to send a fax, you can vector that to your e-mail as an attachment or vector it to a different fax machine. There’s an incredible amount of interaction over what had been completely separate services.