Fred Baker
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | fred [at] cisco.com |
Current position
Fred Baker is currently:
- Since 1998 he is a Fellow at Cisco Systems; He joined Cisco in 1994; Working at Cisco, the main areas of interest of Fred Baker are related to the improvement of Quality of Service, routing development, and other issues related to the law enforcement of the Internet. [1]
- Chairman the Operations Working Group for IPv6 at IETF;
- Member of Smart Grid Interoperability Panel;
- He is a Cisco representative for BITAG.
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 (IAB);
- 2002 - 2006: Chairman of the Internet Society (ISOC); During this period, Fred Baker had a fiduciary responsibility which means he had to operate ISOC as business, thus making sure that Lynn St. Amour had the necessary funding and that all funds were spend appropriately. [2]
- 2002 - 2008: Member of the Board of Trustees of Internet Society (ISOC);
ISOC is considered as the international source for global cooperation and coordination for Internet development, providing global leadership by means of Internet standards, policy development aspects and education. [3]
ISOC is the home for: IETF, IAB, IESG and other Internet bodies.
Other domains 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. [4]
Professional Achievements
Besides an outstanding professional experiences, Fred Baker was also co-author of 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. [5]