Brian Carpenter (Internet engineer)

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He took three years off of his CERN career to teach undergraduate computer science at Massey University in New Zealand. from 2007 until his retirement in 2012. After his retirement, he spend a year as a visiting professor at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University. Since then he has been an honorary academic at The University of Auckland and a consultant for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
In 2013, Carpenter published a professional memoir called Network Geeks: How They Built the Internet.
Contributions to Internet technology
Carpenter's research interests include Internet protocols, especially the networking and routing layers.
Carpenter has worked on IPv6 and on differentiated services and served as the DiffServ working group chair. He served from March 1994 to March 2002 on the Internet Architecture Board, which he chaired for five years. He also served as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and was Chairman of its Board of Trustees for two years until June 2002. In March 2005, he became IETF Chair, a position he held until March 2007.
Selected publications
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* AM Turing's ACE Report of 1946 and Other Papers, Vol. 10 of Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing, B.E. Carpenter, R.W. Doran (eds), MIT Press, 1986.
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* "Turing’s Zeitgeist", B.E. Carpenter, R.W. Doran, Chapter 22 in The Turing Guide, Jack Copeland et al. (eds.), , Oxford University Press, 2017, pp 223-231.

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