Harald Tveit Alvestrand

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Born	29 June 1959
Occupation	computer scientist

Harald Tveit Alvestrand (born 29 June 1959) was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force from 2001 until 2005, taking over from Fred Baker, and being succeeded by Brian Carpenter. He is an author of several important RFCs, many in the general area of Internationalization and localization.

He was born in Namsos, Norway, received his education from Bergen Katedralskole and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT, EDB Maxware and Cisco Systems, Inc.. He currently (2006) lives in Trondheim, Norway, and works for Google.

[edit] External links

• Alvestrand home page
• Harald Alvestrand's IETF activities (by Alvestrand, last updated 2002)
• Portrait

Preceded by Fred Baker

IETF Chair 2001–2005

Succeeded by Brian Carpenter