Frederick J. Baker (born February 28, 1952), is an American
engineer, specializing in developing
computer network protocols for the
Internet.
Biography
Baker attended the
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 1970 to 1973. He developed
computer network technology starting in 1978 at
Control Data Corporation
Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywel ...
(CDC), Vitalink Communications Corporation, and Advanced Computer Communications.
He joined
Cisco Systems in 1994.
He became a Cisco Fellow in 1998, working in university relations and as a research ambassador, and in the IETF. He left Cisco Systems in 2016.
Since 1989, Baker has been involved with the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that develops standards for the
Internet.
He chaired a number of IETF working groups, including several that specified the
management information bases (MIB) used to manage
network bridges and popular telecommunications links.
Baker served as IETF chair from 1996 to 2001, when he was succeeded by
Harald Tveit Alvestrand.
He served on the
Internet Architecture Board from 1996 through 2002. He has co-authored or edited over fifty
Request for Comments (RFC) documents on Internet protocols and contributed to others. The subjects covered include network management,
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and
Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2) routing,
quality of service (using both the
Integrated services and
Differentiated Services
Differentiated services or DiffServ is a computer networking architecture that specifies a mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic and providing quality of service (QoS) on modern IP networks. DiffServ can, for example, be used t ...
models),
Lawful Interception, precedence-based services on the Internet, and others.
In addition, he served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the
Internet Society 2002 through 2008, and as its chair from 2002 through 2006. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Council of the US
Federal Communications Commission from 2005 through 2009.
He has worked as liaison to other standards organizations such as the
ITU-T.
In 2009 he became chair of the RFC Series Oversight Committee.
He co-chaired the
IPv6 Operations Working Group in the IETF, represented the IETF on the
National Institute of Standards and Technology Smart Grid Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and Architecture Committee (until 2013), and was Cisco's representative to a Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group.
Baker also has several patents.
[ Filed September 3, 2008]
References
External links
The Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000 The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Retrieved on August 6, 2007.
1952 births
Living people
People in information technology
Internet Society people
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