Brian Carpenter

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Brian Carpenter is a British Internet engineer, and past chair of the IETF.

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Professional career

He spent 10 years writing software for process control systems at CERN, which was interrupted by three years teaching undergraduate computer science at Massey University in New Zealand.

He led the networking group at CERN, from 1985 to 1996. He worked alongside Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN.

When he left CERN, he joined IBM, where he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer working on Internet Standards and Technology. From 1999 to 2001 he was at iCAIR, the international Center for Advanced Internet Research, sponsored by IBM at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is currently based in Switzerland.

In September 2007, he left IBM for academia, and is now teaching data communication at The University of Auckland.[1]

IETF career

He has worked on IPv6 and on Differentiated Services, being chair of the DiffServ working group. He served from March 1994 to March 2002 on the Internet Architecture Board, which he chaired for five years. He also served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and was Chairman of its Board of Trustees for two years until June 2002. In March 2005 he became IETF Chair, a position he held until March 2007.

References

  • IETF: Biographies of IAB members, available at [1]

External links

Preceded by
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
IETF Chair
2005–2007
Succeeded by
Russ Housley

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