Background
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, Incorporated.
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, Incorporated.
Norwegian Institute of Technology.
He was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force from 2001 until 2005. He is an author of several important RFCs, many in the general area of Internationalization and localization. He currently (2008) lives in Trondheim, Norway, and works for Google.
At the end of 2007 Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN Board., where he remained until December 2010.
He has more recently been a co-Chair of the IETF Enterprise Application Integration and USEFOR WGs.
In 2001 he became a member of the Unicode Board of Directors. Harald Alvestrand is the Executive Director of the Linux Counter Organization., He is a member of the Norid Board, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Independent Submissions Editorial Board.
