Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Encyclopedia
Harald Tveit Alvestrand is a Norwegian
computer scientist
. He was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force
from 2001 until 2005. He is an author of several important RFC
s, 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 (2008) lives in Trondheim
, Norway
, and works for Google
.
At the end of 2007 Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN
Board. In 2001 he became a member of the Unicode Board of Directors
. He has more recently been a co-Chair of the IETF EAI and USEFOR WGs.
Harald Alvestrand is the Executive Director of the Linux Counter
Organization., He is a member of the Norid
Board, and the RFC
Independent Submissions Editorial Board.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
. He was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...
from 2001 until 2005. He is an author of several important RFC
Request for Comments
In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...
s, many in the general area of Internationalization and localization
Internationalization and localization
In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market...
.
He was born in Namsos
Namsos
is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Other villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Klinga, Ramsvika, Skomsvoll, and Spillum....
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, received his education from Bergen Katedralskole
Bergen katedralskole
Bergen katedralskole is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway...
and the Norwegian Institute of Technology
Norwegian Institute of Technology
The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...
, and has worked for Norsk Data
Norsk Data
Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s...
, UNINETT
UNINETT
Uninett is a Norwegian government-owned company responsible for deploying and maintaining a national research based computer network . They also conduct network research and pilot projects related to high speed connectivity...
, EDB Maxware and Cisco Systems, Inc..
He currently (2008) lives in Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, and works for Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
.
At the end of 2007 Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...
Board. In 2001 he became a member of the Unicode Board of Directors
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format schemes, claiming that many of the existing...
. He has more recently been a co-Chair of the IETF EAI and USEFOR WGs.
Harald Alvestrand is the Executive Director of the Linux Counter
Linux Counter
The Linux Counter attempts to measure the number of people using the GNU/Linux operating system, along with the number of machines those users use. The counter is run by a nonprofit membership organization called the Linux Counter Project...
Organization., He is a member of the Norid
Norid
Uninett Norid AS, trading as Norid, is the domain name registry for the three Norwegian country code top-level domains .no, .sj and .bv. The non-profit company is based in Trondheim, where it shares offices with its parent company Uninett; both companies being owned by the Norwegian Ministry of...
Board, and the RFC
Request for Comments
In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...
Independent Submissions Editorial Board.
Best Current Practices
- RFC 2148 (BCP 15) Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service
- RFC 2277 (BCP 18) IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
- RFC 5226 (BCP 26) Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
- RFC 2438 (BCP 27) Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track
- RFC 1766 + RFC 3066 Tags for the Identification of Languages (was BCP 47)
- RFC 3932 (BCP 92) The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures
- RFC 3935 (BCP 95) A Mission Statement for the IETF
Other important RFCs
- RFC 2130 (this memo prepared the UTF-8UTF-8UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...
50-years plan in RFC 2277) - RFC 2157 Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies
- RFC 3282 Content Language Headers (draft standard)
- RFC 4450 Getting Rid of the Cruft (major RFC cleanup work)
- RFC 5242 A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections (with John KlensinJohn KlensinDr. John C. Klensin is a computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues.His career includes 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint as INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University, Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI WorldCom, and...
) April 1, 2008
External links
- Alvestrand home page
- Harald Alvestrand's IETF activities (by Alvestrand, last updated 2002)
- Portrait
