In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Departments problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didnt want to be confined to a single network technology. – Vinton Cerf
The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. – Vinton Cerf