Fred Baker (engineer)

Fred Baker was IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by Harald Tveit Alvestrand.

He has been active in the networking and communications industry since the late seventies, working successively for CDC, Vitalink, ACC, and Cisco Systems. He is currently a Fellow at Cisco, which is to say a senior technologist.

He has chaired a number of IETF working groups, including Bridge MIB, DS1/DS3 MIB, ISDN MIB, PPP Extensions, IEPREP, and IPv6 Operations, and served on the Internet Architecture Board 1996-2002. He has at this point co-authored or edited around 40 RFCs and contributd to many more. The subjects covered include network management, OSPF and RIPv2 routing, quality of service (using both the Integrated services and Differentiated Services models), Lawful Interception, Precedence-based services on the Internet, and others.

He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, having served as its chair from 2002 through 2006, chair of the IPv6 Operations Working Group in the IETF, and a member of the Technical Advisory Council Technical Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission.