Fred Baker was IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by Harald Tveit Alvestrand. Jump to: navigation, search The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards, in particular, those of the TCP/IP protocol suite. ... Harald Tveit Alvestrand (b. ...
He has served as chair on a number of working groups, was on the Internet Architecture Board, and co-authored or edited 34 RFCs. The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ...
He has been active in the networking and communications industry since the late seventies, working for ACC, Vitalink and CDC, and is now a Cisco fellow.
The area directors, together with the IETFChair, form the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), which is responsible for the overall operation of the IETF.
The IETF is overseen by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which oversees its external relationships, and relations with the RFC Editor.
The IETF has at times been ascribed nearly magical abilities by the trade press, who assumed its mechanisms were responsible for the success of the Internet because it works on the Internet's core protocols.
The IETF is overseen by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which is in turn responsible to the Internet Society (ISOC).
The current chairman of the IETF is Harald Tveit Alvestrand.
Since 2003 he has been overseeing modest reforms of IETF processes and procedures, in response to the widespread consensus that IETF has outgrown the days when the Internet was still a small research project.
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