Frode Greisen has worked with computers since 1963 and with computer networks
since 1984. He was born in 1940 and obtained his M.Sc. in electrical engineering
in 1964 and a Ph.D. in solid state physics in 1968 from the Technical University
of Denmark. He was at The Technical University of Denmark first as a research
assistant and later as an assistant Professor from 1964 to 1970, with IBM Denmark
from 1971 to 1977 and with the Danish Computing Center for Research and Education
(UNI-C) from 1978 to 1996.
In 1996 he joined Ebone Inc. as Managing Director after having served as General
Manager since 1992 for the Ebone consortium which built the first pan-European
Internet backbone. At the purchase of Ebone Inc. by GTS in 2000 he became
Vice President in GTS in London, and he left GTS when it was acquired by
KPNQWEST in 2002. He returned to UNI-C in 2003.
He was the president of the European Research and Education Network (EARN)
from
1989 to 1995. EARN was an international university and research network in
Europe, initially using IBM systems and protocols and transitioning to Internet
protocols around 1992. At the merger between EARN and the association of European
national research networks, Reseaux Associes de la Recherche Europeenne (RARE)
in 1994 into the Trans-European Education and Research Networking Association
(TERENA) he was elected president of TERENA . He served in that position until
1995.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society from 1992
to 1998. He
served as treasurer from 1992 to 1997 and as the chairman of the Society in
1997/1998. The Internet Society was established in 1992 as a professional society
which became the legal umbrella for IETF and whose initiatives to institutionalise
IANA eventually led to the formation of ICANN.
In 1997 he was elected to the founding executive board of the RIPE NCC Association,
a
new legal body set up to continue the work to allocate IP addresses in Europe
previously
done under the umbrella of TERENA since 1992. He still serves on this board.
Since 2002 he serves in the board of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), a
new not-for-profit organization set up by the Internet Society to manage the
.org top level domain.
The board of the RIPE NCC needs to support to the dual nature of the
association:
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On the one hand, the RIPE NCC is unique and special. It needs to be
strictly impartial and objective in carrying out its basic mission, and it
needs to have and to be seen to have a deep understanding of the technical
foundations of the Internet. I also needs to co-operate with ICANN, the IETF
and other standards organizations to preserve the stability of the Internet
and enable its development.
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On the other hand, the RIPE NCC is like any other organization.
Operations, staff management and financial management need to be
professional and to provide value for money to its members.
I've been in the board of the NCC for six years and I've been happy to see
the NCC grow and keep up its good reputation. However, with the growth of
the Internet business and governments take an increasing interest in address
management I'm eager to help the RIPE NCC (and the other RIRs: ARIN, APNIC
and LACNIC) keep their independent role and responsibilities in areas where
they in a better position to operate than any other organization. In
particular I would like to work for having ICANN/IANA delegate to the RIRs
as much of the address policy development and the address management as at
all possible in order to avoid a single point of failure.
At present I'm working half time with The Danish IT Centre for Research and
Education (UNI-C) and my employer supports my role as RIPE NCC board member.
Thus I believe that if elected again I'd be able to find enough time for the
job either during my working hours or during my leisure time.
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