Huawei Experts Are Appointed as IAB Member and AD of IETF Tweet

Huawei, a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, recently announced that its two experts, Spencer Dawkins and David Harrington, have been appointed as Internet Architecture Board (IAB) member and Transport Area Director (AD) respectively at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 77th meeting held in Anaheim, USA, on March 21 to 29, 2010.

At this meeting, IETF has announced the list of the accepted nominations for IAB members and ADs, and the new appointees will start their two-year term starting from March 2010. Spencer Dawkins, as a newcomer to IAB, will make concerted efforts with other IAB members to guide the IETF technology development, decide on IETF protocols, and catalyze the Internet progression. Serving as the transport AD, David Harrington will lead the transport team members to put insights to transport-related technologies and standards. Upon the appointment of Spencer Dawkins and David Harrington, Huawei has in total one IAB member, two ADs (David Harrington and Adrian Farrel, a routing AD), and over 10 chairs of IETF working groups.

IETF is a large and most authoritative Internet technology research organization in the world. Ever since 2003, Huawei has submitted 24 pieces of Request For Comments (RFC), 62 working group drafts, and 241 active drafts to IETF and this helps Huawei stand out as a fastest-growing major contributor to IETF. Particularly in 2009, Huawei submitted 12 pieces of RFCs regarding multiple technical fronts such as routing, multicast, IPv6, and security. Nowadays, Huawei is playing an increasing role in IETF and has become a major IP standards contributor to IETF by its continuous inputs, in-depth research into standards, and employment of industry-leading senior experts.

Huawei has actively joined more than 100 international standards organizations including IEEE, 3GPP, OIF, FSAN, and Broadband Forum (former DSL Forum) and made outstanding contributions to the advancement of industrial standardization.

About IETF

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.).

For more details about IETF, visit http://www.ietf.org/.

About IETF IAB and AD

The IAB is chartered both as a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). Its responsibilities include architectural oversight of IETF activities, Internet Standards Process oversight and appeal, and the appointment of the RFC Editor. The IAB is also responsible for the management of the IETF protocol parameter registries.

ADs are the managers of the IETF standards process. This means that they must understand the way the IETF works, be able to inspire and encourage other people to work together in their own areas, and have sound technical judgment about IETF technology. In addition, all ADs should have strong technical expertise that crosses two or three IETF areas and be capable of managing the working groups and standards process of multiple areas. ADs are also entitled to select and directly manage the working group chairs.

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