Chapter 21: Brian E. Carpenter: The Internet

Dr. Brian E. Carpenter, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian, is a distinguished computer scientist and engineer working on Internet standards and technology. The University of Auckland was privileged to attract Brian in 2007 and he was appointed professor in 2009. Before coming to Auckland, he led the networking group at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and worked for IBM as a Distinguished Engineer. During his career he has published in various areas: automatic speech recognition, control software, programming languages, networking and the history of computing. Brian has chaired the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and served as a trustee of the Internet Society. Brian was heavily involved in the design and deployment of IPv6. He is also interested in the quality of service, management and measurement issues of the Internet. Brian was a member of the IBM Academy of Technology (membership lapses when one leaves IBM)…