Three ways of looking at me (1997, 2005, 2009).
I am now an honorary academic, no longer lecturing or supervising students. Potential graduate students or interns: please see our research overview and our postgraduate options.
My book "Network Geeks - How They Built the Internet" came out in April 2013. You can get it from the usual places, on paper or as an eBook. Here's the publisher's page, and here's the errata page.
For a short biography, look here.
For my official University of Auckland profile, look
here.
(Please note that my university telephone number is no longer operational.)
Non-university email: brian.e.carpenter AT gmail.com
Three ways of looking at me (1997, 2005, 2009).
My research interests are focussed on Internet infrastructure issues, especially lower-layer protocols. In recent years I have been active in Internet protocol design, mainly in the IETF. I am particularly interested in the much-needed deployment of IPv6 and in autonomic networking. See Autonomic Networking Gets Serious and GeneRic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP) - An Introduction.
I am also interested in the history of computing.
To hear what I thought about things in 1993, listen to my interview on Internet Talk Radio broadast on November 10 that year.
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