Thomas Narten
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | narten [at] cs.duke.edu |
| LinkedIn: |  [thomas-narten Thomas Narten]
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Thomas Narten is an Engineer at IBM. He has worked for IBM since 1995 and has been involved in networking for 20 years.[1]
Education[edit | edit source]
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.[2]
Career History[edit | edit source]
He has been an active contributor in the IETF since 1995, co-authoring 10 RFC's, which includes IPv6 specifications. He was an IEFT Area Director for the Internet from 1997 to 2005.[3]
He has been a participant in the establishment of IPv6 address policy in the RIR community since 2001. He also helped in developing RFC 3177, "IAB/IESG Recommmendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites," which served as input to the RIR discussions. He takes part in the public policy discussions in the APNIC, ARIN and RIPE regions. He was a major participant in the process that produced the globally-coordinated IPv6 address policy adopted by each of the RIRs in 2002.
He was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at SUNY-Albany before he joined IBM.[4]