Fred Baker (IETF chair)

Fred Baker
Born	28 February 1952 Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Occupation	Engineer, Former IETF chair

Fred Baker was IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by Harald Tveit Alvestrand.^[1]

He has been active in the networking and communications industry since the late seventies, working successively for CDC, Vitalink, ACC. He is currently a Fellow at Cisco Systems.

He has chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations, and served on the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002. He has co-authored or edited around 40 RFCs and contributed to others. The subjects covered include network management, OSPF and RIPv2 routing, quality of service (using both the Integrated services and Differentiated Services models), Lawful Interception, Precedence-based services on the Internet, and others. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society 2002-2008, having served as its chair from 2002 through 2006. He is also a former member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission.

He currently co-chairs the IPv6 Operations Working Group in the IETF, and is a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force Administrative Oversight Committee.

References

1. ^ Official IETF list of IETF chairs, consulted 2007-08-05

External links

• The Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Retrieved on August 06, 2007.
• Bio-data of Mr. Fred Baker, International Workshop on e-Access for All, United Nation. Retrieved on August 06, 2007.
• RFC Editor

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