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'''Harald Alvestrand''' was alternate chair of the [[ICANN]] [[DNSO]] General Assembly from December 1999 to April 2001, and was a member of the [[WIPO]] panel of experts on the [[DNS]] in 1998-1999. He is currently a board member of [[NORID]], the [[.no]] domain name registry, and of the Unicode Consortium. Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN Board by the [[NomCom|Nominating Committee]] in 2007.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/alvestrand.htm ICANN biography data]</ref>
'''Harald Alvestrand''' is a prominent Computer Scientist, and International IT Policy Developer. He has served in numerous official ICANN positions, been a part of [[WIPO]] panels, and worked for the Norwegian ccTLD Registry; he also has extensive experience with the [[IETF]], eventually acting as its Chairman. He was born in Norway in 1959.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/alvestrand.htm ICANN.org]</ref>
==Work==
=== Norwegian Internet===
was alternate chair of the [[ICANN]] [[DNSO]] General Assembly from December 1999 to April 2001, and was a member of the [[WIPO]] panel of experts on the [[DNS]] in 1998-1999. He is currently a board member of [[NORID]], the [[.no]] domain name registry, and of the Unicode Consortium. Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN Board by the [[NomCom|Nominating Committee]] in 2007.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/alvestrand.htm ICANN biography data]</ref>
Harald worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT (the university network of Norway), EDB Maxware, Cisco Systems. Since 2006 he worked for Google. He has been active in Internet standardization via the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs, including [[RFC 1766]], the first standard for language tags in Internet protocols.
Harald worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT (the university network of Norway), EDB Maxware, Cisco Systems. Since 2006 he worked for Google. He has been active in Internet standardization via the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs, including [[RFC 1766]], the first standard for language tags in Internet protocols.
===IETF===
In the IETF, he has been an area director of the Applications area (1995-1998) and of the Operations & Management area (1998-1999; a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1999-2001), and served as chair of the IETF from 2001 to 2006.
In the IETF, he has been an area director of the Applications area (1995-1998) and of the Operations & Management area (1998-1999; a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1999-2001), and served as chair of the IETF from 2001 to 2006.
===ICANN===
==Education==
==Education==