Fred Baker

Person
Rest in Peace
Community	ICANN Community
ICANN SO/AC	RSSAC
Region	NA
Country	United States of America

Frederick (Fred) Baker (June 3, 1938 – January 17, 2024) was an American engineer, specializing in developing computer network protocols for the Internet. He was Cisco Systems representative for BITAG. He joined Cisco in 1994. Working at Cisco, his main areas of interest are related to the improvement of quality of service, routing development, and other issues related to Internet governance. Fred was a Chairman of IETF and ISOC.

Membership

Fred Baker was a Fellow at Cisco Systems from 1999 to 2016. He was also the Chairman for the Operations Working Group for IPv6 at IETF. He was also a member of Smart Grid Interoperability Panel.

Professional Experience

• 1996-2001: IETF Chairman, followed by Harald Tvei Alvestrand. Within IETF he chaired various working groups such as PPP Extensions, IPv6 Operations, ISDN MID and others;
• 1996-2002: Was part of the Internet Architecture Board;
• 2002 - 2006: Chairman of The Internet Society; During this period, Fred Baker had a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that Lynn St. Amour had the necessary funding and that all funds were spent appropriately.
• 2002 - 2008: Member of the Board of Trustees of The Internet Society
• 2017: joined the Root Server System Advisory Committee of ICANN (RSSAC), representing Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)
• 2018 - 2019: RSSAC Co-Chair
• 2020 - 2022: RSSAC Chair

Other Areas of Interest

Fred Baker also got involved in the following areas and organizations:

• The communication and networking industry: worked with ACC, Vitalink, and CDC.
• Former member of Technical Advisory Council within the Federal Communications Commission.

RFCs

Fred Baker was also co-author 30 RFCs and he was an important contributor to a several other RFCs. He was the co-author of RFCs related to quality of service, precedence-based Internet services, RIPv2 routing and other such issues.

North America, according to the ICANN Geographic Regions (ICANN Geographic Regions).

Internet Engineering Task Force

Root Server System Advisory Committee. Advises the ICANN community and Board on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet's Root Server System (ICANN Bylaws).

Request For Comments. Archival series dedicated to documenting Internet technical specifications, including general contributions from the Internet research and engineering community as well as standards documents (RFC Editor Model, Version 3).