- Fred Baker (IETF chair)
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name = Fred Baker
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birth_date = 28 February 1952
birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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occupation = Engineer, Former IETF chair
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children =Fred Baker was IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by
Harald Tveit Alvestrand . [ [http://www.ietf.org/ietf_chairs_year.html Official IETF list of IETF chairs] , consulted2007-08-05 ]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 theIntegrated services andDifferentiated 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 theInternet Society 2002-2008, having served as its chair from 2002 through 2006. He is also a former member of the [http://www.fcc.gov/oet/tac/ Technical Advisory Council] of theFederal Communications Commission .He currently co-chairs the [http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/v6ops-charter.html IPv6 Operations Working Group] in the IETF, and is a member of the
Internet Engineering Task Force Administrative Oversight Committee .References
External links
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/baker.html 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.
* [http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UN/UNPAN025162.pdf Bio-data of Mr. Fred Baker, International Workshop on e-Access for All] , United Nation. Retrieved on August 06, 2007.
* [http://www.rfc-editor.org/ RFC Editor]
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