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- Brian Carpenter
- brian@dxcern.cern.ch
- Nominated Candidate
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- Work Experience
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- I hold a B.A. in physics from Cambridge, UK and a Ph.D. (1970) in
- computer science from Manchester, UK. My research was on real-time
- speech recognition. I am a Member of the Institution of Electrical
- Engineers, UK.
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- In 1971-74 I was a systems programmer on the CERN accelerator
- controls system, implementing communications software to connect
- Imlac display minicomputers (effectively, early workstations) to
- an IBM 1800.
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- From 1974 to 1976 I taught Computer Science at Massey University,
- New Zealand. I participated in the design of KIWINET, a proposed
- network. I also began some work as a historian of the work of Alan
- Turing.
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- In 1976-84 I led the systems software team in an accelerator
- controls group at CERN. My job included selection of network
- hardware and software, and I was responsible for network software
- and operating system support. I served as a Board member of the
- Norsk Data Computer Users Society.
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- Since 1985 I have led a group of about 30 engineers (software and
- hardware) and technicians responsible for most of the CERN data
- communications infrastructure. We cover local area networks (80
- Ethernets with above 4000 connected devices and an FDDI backbone),
- about 3000 terminal connections, and wide area networks (about 25
- leased lines totalling 12 Mbit/s), as well as the support of
- TCP/IP, proprietary, and even OSI protocols.
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- I was a member of the Networks Subgroup of the European Commission
- High Performance Computing Advisory Committee. Until 1992 I was
- CERN's member of the HEPnet Requirements Committee, of the CCIRN
- (Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking)
- and of the EASInet Project Committee, and alternate member of the
- RARE Council.
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- In addition to my management job, I have a strong technical
- interest in low level protocols, and I have been participating in
- two IETF working groups (ATM and TUBA).
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- Statement of Acceptance
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- I believe that my experience in an international environment, and
- my brief experience in New Zealand, give me a fairly broad
- perspective of the Internet user community and I would like to work
- towards boosting the influence of users on Internet affairs. The
- excellent work of the IETF is driven by technological factors and
- requirements perceived by network technologists. I believe that
- this vital aspect of ISOC's work should be complemented by a user
- forum in which the interests and concerns of Internet users in
- every country may be discussed and formulated. This forum should
- pass on these concerns to Internet service providers, product
- vendors, standardisation bodies including the IETF, and
- coordination and operational bodies. As an ISOC trustee I would
- work towards creating this user forum.
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