Past IAB Members and Chairs
Past IAB Chairs
- Tommy Pauly, Apple, March 2024-present
- Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson, March 2020-March 2024
- Ted Hardie, Google, March 2017-March 2020
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn, Inc., March 2015-March 2017
- Russ Housley, Vigil Security, March 2013-March 2015
- Bernard Aboba, Microsoft, March 2011-March 2013
- Olaf Kolkman, NLNetlabs, March 2007-March 2011
- Leslie Daigle, Verisign, Cisco, March 2002-March 2007
- John Klensin, AT&T, March 2000-March 2002
- Brian Carpenter, IBM, July 1995-March 2000
- Christian Huitema, INRIA, March 1993-July 1995
- Lyman Chapin, Data General, BBN, July 1991-March 1993
- Vint Cerf, CNRI, July 1989-July 1991
- Dave Clark, MIT, 1981-July 1989
IAB Members, March 2024-Present
- Matthew Bocci, Nokia
- Alissa Cooper, Knight-Georgetown Institute
- Roman Danyliw, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dhruv Dhody, Huawei
- Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI
- Cullen Jennings, Cisco
- Suresh Krishnan, Cisco
- Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson
- Tommy Pauly, Apple
- Alvaro Retana, Futurewei
- David Schinazi, Google
- Christopher Wood, Cloudflare
- Qin Wu, Huawei Technologies
IAB Members, March 2023-March 2024
- Dhruv Dhody, Huawei
- Lars Eggert, NetApp
- Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI
- Cullen Jennings, Cisco
- Mallory Knodel, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Suresh Krishnan, Cisco
- Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson
- Tommy Pauly, Apple
- Alvaro Retana, Futurewei
- David Schinazi, Google
- Christopher Wood, Cloudflare
- Qin Wu, Huawei Technologies
- Jiankang Yao 姚健康, CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center
IAB Members, March 2022-March 2023
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Deborah Brungard, AT&T
- Lars Eggert, NetApp
- Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI
- Cullen Jennings, Cisco
- Mallory Knodel, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson
- Zhenbin Li, Huawei
- Tommy Pauly, Apple
- David Schinazi, Google
- Russ White, Juniper
- Qin Wu, Huawei Technologies
- Jiankang Yao 姚健康, CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center
IAB Members, March 2021-March 2022
- Jari Arkko (Ericsson)
- Deborah Brungard (AT&T)
- Ben Campbell (independent consultant)
- Lars Eggert (NetApp) (incoming IETF Chair)
- Cullen Jennings (Cisco)
- Wes Hardaker (USC’s Information Sciences Institute)
- Mirja Kühlewind (Ericsson)
- Zhenbin (Robin) Li (Huawei)
- Jared Mauch (Akamai)
- Tommy Pauly (Apple)
- David Schinazi (Google)
- Russ White (Juniper)
- Jiankang Yao 姚健康 (CNNIC, China Internet Network Information Center)
IAB Members, March 2020-March 2021
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Ben Campbell, Independent Consultant
- Alissa Cooper, Cisco (IETF Chair)
- Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin
- Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI
- Cullen Jennings, Cisco Systems
- Mirja Kühlewind, Ericsson
- Zhenbin Li, Huawei
- Jared Mauch, Akamai Technologies
- Mark Nottingham, Fastly
- Tommy Pauly, Apple
- Jeff Tantsura, Apstra
- Jiankang Yao 姚健康, CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center
IAB Members, March 2019-March 2020
- Alissa Cooper, Cisco (IETF Chair)
- Brian Trammell, ETH Zurich
- Christian Huitema, Independent
- Erik Nordmark, Zededa
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Jeff Tantsura, Apstra
- Mark Nottingham, Fastly
- Martin Thomson, Mozilla
- Melinda Shore, Fastly
- Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin
- Ted Hardie, Google
- Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI
- Zhenbin Li, Huawei
IAB Members, March 2018-March 2019
- Alissa Cooper, IETF Chair, Cisco
- Brian Trammell, ETH
- Christian Huitema, Independent
- Erik Nordmark, Zededa
- Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Jeff Tantsura, Nuagenetworks
- Mark Nottingham, Fastly
- Martin Thomson, Mozilla
- Melinda Shore, Fastly
- Robert Sparks, Independent
- Suzanne Woolf, Independent
- Ted Hardie, Google
IAB Members, March 2017-March 2018
- Alissa Cooper, IETF Chair, Cisco
- Brian Trammell, ETH
- Erik Nordmark, Arista
- Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Jeff Tantsura, Futurewei
- Joe Hildebrand, Mozilla
- Lee Howard, Independent
- Mark Nottingham, Akamai Technologies
- Martin Thomson, Mozilla
- Robert Sparks, Oracle
- Suzanne Woolf, Independent
- Ted Hardie, Google
IAB Members, April 2016-March 2017
- Jari Arkko, IETF chair, Ericsson
- Ralph Droms, Cisco
- Russ Housley, Vigilsec
- Robert Sparks, Oracle
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn, Inc
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft
- Suzanne Woolf, independent
- Brian Trammell, ETH
- Erik Nordmark, Arista
- Joe Hildebrand, Cisco
- Lee Howard, Time Warner Cable
- Martin Thomson, Mozilla
- Ted Hardie, Google
IAB Members, March 2015-April 2016
- Jari Arkko, the IETF Chair (ex officio)
- Mary Barnes, MLB@Realtime Communications, LLC
- Marc Blanchet, Viagénie
- Ted Hardie, Google
- Joe Hildebrand, Cisco
- Russ Housley, Vigilsec
- Erik Nordmark, Arista
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn, Inc
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft Corporation
- Brian Trammell, ETH Zurich
- Ralph Droms, Cisco
- Robert Sparks, Oracle
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn
- Suzanne Woolf, Independent consultant
IAB Members, March 2014-March 2015
- Jari Arkko (IETF Chair), Ericsson
- Mary Barnes, Independent
- Marc Blanchet, Viagénie
- Joel Halpern, Ericsson
- Ted Hardie, Google
- Joe Hildebrand, Cisco
- Russ Housley, Vigilsec
- Eliot Lear, Cisco Systems
- Xing Li, Tsinghua University/CERNET Center
- Erik Nordmark, Artista
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn Inc.
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft Corporation
- Brian Trammell, ETH Zurich
IAB Members, March 2013-March 2014
- Bernard Aboba, Microsoft
- Jari Arkko (IETF Chair), Ericsson
- Marc Blanchet, Viagénie
- Ross Callon, Juniper
- Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Spencer Dawkins*, Huawei
- *Stepped down in May 2013
- Joel Halpern, Ericsson
- Russ Housley, Vigilsec
- Eliot Lear, Cisco Systems
- Xing Li, Tsinghua University/CERNET Center
- Erik Nordmark*, Arista
- Appointed July 2013 to replace Spencer Dawkins
- Andrew Sullivan, Dyn Inc.
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft Corporation
- Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks
IAB Members, March 2012-March 2013
- Bernard Aboba, Microsoft
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Marc Blanchet, Viagénie
- Ross Callon, Juniper
- Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Spencer Dawkins, Huawei
- Joel Halpern, Ericsson
- Russ Housley (IETF Chair), Vigilsec
- David Kessens, Nokia Siemens Networks
- Danny McPherson, Verisign
- Jon Peterson, Neustar
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft Corporation
- Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks
IAB Members, March 2011-March 2012
- Bernard Aboba, Microsoft
- Ross Callon, Juniper
- Alissa Cooper, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Spencer Dawkins, Huawei
- Joel Halperm, Ericsson
- Russ Housley (IETF Chair), Vigilsec
- David Kessens, Nokia Siemens Networks
- Olaf Kolkman, NLnet Labs
- Danny McPherson, Verisign
- Jon Peterson, Neustar
- Andrei Robachevsky, ISOC
- Dave Thaler, Microsoft Corporation
- Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks
IAB Members Prior to 2011
Unless otherwise noted, the terms of IAB members began and ended in March or April of the year listed. The names below are listed by starting year. It is likely that several members from the early years of the IAB are missing. Uncertain dates are marked by ‘?’.
| Member | Organization (at time of service) | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Clark | MIT | 1983 | ? |
| Vint Cerf | Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) | 1986 | 1993 |
| Stephen Kent | BBN | 1983 | 1995 |
| Bob Braden | UCLA | 1981 | 1994 |
| Dave Mills | Linkabit | 1984? | ? |
| Bob Thomas | BBN | 1984? | ? |
| Ray McFarland | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | 1984? | ? |
| Rob Cole | UCL | 1984? | ? |
| Jim Mathis | SRI | 1984? | 1988 |
| Dave Hartman | Mitre | 1984? | ? |
| Ed Cain | Defense Communications Engineering Center (DCEC) (part of DCA) | 1984? | ? |
| Doug Comer | Purdue University | 1986 | 1989 |
| Lyman Chapin | Data General, BBN | 1989 | 1993 |
| Hans-Werner Braun |
Merit, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) |
1990? | 1994 |
| Anthony Lauck | DEC | 1990 | 1994 |
| Barry Leiner | RIACS, Advanced Decision Systems (ADS), University Space Research Association (USRA) | 1990? | 1994 |
| Keith Lantz | Olivetti Research | 1989 | ? |
| Deborah Estrin | USC | 1989 | ? |
| Dan Lynch | Interop | 1990? | 1994 |
| Jon Postel | USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) | 1990? | 1993 |
| Elise Gerich | Merit | 1993 | 1997 |
| Jun Murai | WIDE | 1993 | 1995 |
| Yakov Rekhter | IBM Research | 1993 | 1997 |
| John Romkey | ELF Communications | 1993 | 1995 |
| Dave Sincoskie | Bellcore | 1993 | 1995 |
| Mike St Johns | ARPA | 1993 | 1995 |
| Phill Gross | CNRI | 1994 | 1996 |
| Christian Huitema | INRIA | 1991 | 1996 |
| Robert Elz | University of Melbourne | 1994 | 1998 |
| Brian Carpenter | IBM | 1994 | 2002 |
| Lixia Zhang | Xerox PARC | 1994 | 1996 |
| UCLA | 2005 | 2009 | |
| Steve Crocker | USC | 1994 | 1996 |
| J. Allard | Microsoft | 1995 | 1997 |
| Robert Moskowitz | Chrysler | 1995 | 1999 |
| Erik Huizer | SURFnet | 1995 | 1999 |
| Chris Weider | Microsoft | 1995 | 1997 |
| Steve Bellovin | AT&T | 1996 | 2002 |
| Jon Crowcroft |
UCL, Cambridge |
1996 | 2002 |
| John Klensin |
MCI, MCI Worldcom,AT&T |
1996 | 2002 |
| Radia Perlman | Sun Microsystems | 1996 | 1998 |
| Steve Deering | Cisco | 1997 | 2002 |
| Tony Hain | Microsoft | 1997 | 2001 |
| Cyndi Jung | 3Com | 1997 | 1999 |
| Charlie Perkins | Sun | 1997 | 1999 |
| Ned Freed | Innosoft | 1998 | 2000 |
| Tim Howes | Netscape | 1998 | 2000 |
| Harald Alvestrand | Cisco | 1999 | 2001 |
| Ran Atkinson | Extreme Networks | 1999 | 2003 |
| Rob Austein |
Integrated Systems, Internetshare, Grunchweather Associates, Internet Systems Consortium |
1999 | 2005 |
| Geoff Huston |
Telstra, APNIC |
1999 | 2005 |
| Henning Schulzrinne | Columbia University | 2000 | 2002 |
| Leslie Daigle |
ThinkingCat Enterprises, Verisign,Cisco,Internet Society |
2000 | 2008 |
| Fred Baker | Cisco | 2001 | 2003 |
| Sally Floyd |
ACIRI, ICIR |
2001 | 2005 |
| Ted Hardie |
Nominum, Qualcomm |
2002 | 2003 |
| Charlie Kaufman |
IBM, Microsoft |
2002 | 2004 |
| James Kempf | NTT | 2002 | 2004 |
| Eric Rescorla | RTFM | 2002 | 2008 |
| Mike St Johns | Network Associates, Nominum | 2002 | 2004 |
| Bernard Aboba | Microsoft | 2003 | 2007 |
| Jun-ichiro Itojun Hagino | IIJ | 2003 | 2005 |
| Mark Handley |
ICIR, UCL |
2003 | 2005 |
| Patrik Fältström | Cisco | 2003 | 2006 |
| Bob Hinden | Nokia | 2004 | 2006 |
| Pete Resnick | Qualcomm | 2004 | 2006 |
| Jonathan Rosenberg |
dynamicsoft, Cisco |
2004 | 2006 |
| Loa Andersson | Acreo | 2005 | 2009 |
| Kurtis Lindqvist | Netnod | 2005 | 2009 |
| David Meyer | Cisco / University of Oregon | 2005 | 2007 |
| Pekka Nikander | Ericsson / Helsinki University of Technology | 2005 | 2006 |
| David Oran | Cisco | 2006 | 2010 |
| Olaf Kolkman | NLnet Labs | 2006 | 2012 |
| Kevin Fall | Intel | 2006 | 2008 |
| Elwyn Davies | Folly Consulting | 2006 | 2008 |
| Dave Thaler | Microsoft | 2006 | 2017 |
| Barry Leiba | IBM | 2007 | 2009 |
| Danny McPherson | Arbor Networks, Verisign | 2007 | 2013 |
| Gonzalo Camarillo | Ericsson | 2008 | 2010 |
| Stuart Cheshire | Apple | 2008 | 2010 |
| Gregory Lebovitz | Juniper | 2008 | 2010 |
| Andrew Malis | Verizon | 2008 | 2010 |
| Marcelo Bagnulo | University Carlos III of Madrid | 2009 | 2011 |
| Vijay Gill | 2009 | 2010 | |
| John Klensin | Independent | 2009 | 2011 |
| Jon Peterson | Neustar | 2009 | 2013 |
| Bernard Aboba | Microsoft | 2010 | 2014 |
| Ross Callon | Juniper | 2010 | 2014 |
| Spencer Dawkins | Huawei | 2010 | 2013 |
| Andrei Robachevsky | RIPE / ISOC | 2010 | 2012 |
| Hannes Tschofenig | Nokia Siemens Networks | 2010 | 2014 |
| Alissa Cooper | Center for Democracy and Technology | 2011 | 2014 |
| Joel Halpern | Ericsson | 2011 | 2015 |
| David Kessens | Nokia Siemens Networks | 2011 | 2013 |
IAB Ex-Officio and Liaison Members
IETF Chair (Full Member, with a couple exceptions)
- Mike Corrigan* (1986-1987)
- Phill Gross* (1988-1993)
- Paul Mockapetris (1994-1995)
- Fred Baker (1996-2000)
- Harald Alvestrand (2001-2005)
- Brian Carpenter (2005-2007)
- Russ Housley (2007-2013)
- Jari Arkko (2013-2017)
- Alissa Cooper (2017-2021)
- Lars Eggert (2021-present)
* Note: Prior to 1993, the IETF chair was appointed by the IAB and served on the IAB as a regular member.
IRTF Chair (Ex-Officio)
- Dave Clark* (1989-March 1992)
- Jon Postel* (March 1992-February 1995)
- Abel Weinrib (February 1995-September 1999)
- Erik Huizer (September 1999-December 2001)
- Vern Paxson (December 2001-March 2005)
- Aaron Falk (March 2005-March 2011)
- Lars Eggert (March 2011-March 2017)
- Allison Mankin (March 2017-March 2019)
- Colin Perkins (March 2019-Present)
* Note: Prior to 1993, the IRTF chair was appointed by the IAB and served on the IAB as a regular member.
RFC Editor Liaison
- Jon Postel (1998)
- Joyce Reynolds (1999-2006)
- Sandy Ginoza (2006-2010)
- Glenn Kowack (2010-2011)
- Olaf Kolkman (2011-2012)
- Heather Flanagan (2012-2019)
- John Levine (2020-2022)
- Alexis Rossi (2022-present)
ISOC Liaison
- Larry Landweber (1995-1996)
- Don Heath (1996-2000)
- Lynn St Amour (2000-2011)
- Mat Ford (2011-2018)
- Karen O’Donoghue (2018-present)
IESG Liaison to the IAB
- Bob Hinden (June 1993-March 1994)
- Allison Mankin (July 1995-March 1997)
- Keith Moore (August 1997-March 2000)
- Randy Bush (March 2000-August 2001)
- Erik Nordmark (August 2001-May 2003)
- Bert Wijnen (May 2003-March 2006)
- Ted Hardie (March 2006-June 2006)
- Dan Romascanu (June 2006-March 2007)
- Mark Townsley (March 2007-July 2008)
- Lars Eggert (July 2008-July 2009)
- Ron Bonica (July 2009-March 2011)
- Sean Turner (March 2011-March 2012)
- Robert Sparks (March 2012-March 2013)
- Barry Leiba (March 2013-March 2014)
- Alissa Cooper (March 2014-February 2015)
- Alia Atlas (February 2015-May 2016)
- Suresh Krishnan (May 2016-March 2017)
- Kathleen Moriarty (March 2017-March 2018)
- Deborah Brungard (March 2018-March 2019)
- Mirja Kühlewind (March 2019-March 2020)
- Alvaro Retana (March 2020-March 2021)
- Martin Vigoureux (March 2021-March 2022)
- Warren Kumari (March 2022-March 2023)
- Roman Danyliw (March 2023-March 2024)
- John Scudder (March 2024-present)
Executive Director (Ex-Officio)
- Bob Braden (1983-1994)
- Abel Weinrib (1994-March 2001)
- Leslie Daigle* (March 2001-March 2002)
- Geoff Huston* (March 2002-March 2005)
- Rich Draves (April 2005-March 2006)
- Phil Roberts (April 2006-April 2007)
- Joe Abley (April 2007-March 2008)
- Dow Street (March 2008-March 2012)
- Mary Barnes (March 2012-March 2014)
- Ted Hardie* (March 2015-March 2017)
* Serving IAB Member and Executive Director.