'''Robert Braden''' is an American Computer_scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet. His research interests include End-to-end Network_protocols, especially in the transport and internetwork layers. ==Career== He received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from Cornell_University in 1957, and a Master of Science in Physics from Stanford_University in 1962. After graduating, he worked at Stanford and Carnegie_Mellon_University. He has taught programming and operating systems courses at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and also UCLA, where he moved next. He remained at UCLA for 18 years, 16 of them at the campus computing center. He spent 1981-1982 at the Computer Science Department of University_College_London. While there, he wrote the first relay system connecting the Internet with the U.K. academic X.25 network. He joined the networking research group at the Information_Sciences_Institute (ISI) in 1986, and is currently a Project Leader in the Computer Networks Division. He was named an ISI Fellow in August, 2000. ==Professional contributions== While at UCLA, he was responsible for attaching UCLA's IBM_360/91 Supercomputer to the ARPAnet, beginning in 1970. He was active in the ARPAnet Network_Working_Group, contributing to the design of the FTP protocol in particular. In 1978, he became a member of the Internet_Working_Group, which developed TCP/IP, and began development of a TCP/IP implementation for UCLA's IBM system. (The UCLA IBM software was distributed to other OS/MVS sites, and was later sold commercially.) In 1981, he was invited to join the Internet_Configuration_Control_Board, the organization that later became the Internet_Architecture_Board (IAB). He later served for 13 years as a member of the IAB. He has been a member of the Internet_Engineering_Task_Force and the Internet_Research_Task_Force since their inception. When IAB task forces were formed in 1986, he created and still chairs the End-to-End_Task_Force. Among his many contributions during this period were: * Editing the Host Requirements RFCs (RFC 1122, RFC 1123, RFC 1127) * Developing the Resource_Reservation_Protocol * Developed T/TCP (RFC 1644) * Serving as co-Editor of the Request_for_Comments (RFC) series. * Serving with the Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority * Coordinating the DARPA research network DARTnet He is a Fellow of the Association_for_Computing_Machinery. ==External links== * Robert Braden's Internet RFCs * Carl Malamud interviews Bob Braden ==Sources== * Gary Malkin, ''Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members'' (RFC 1336, May 1992) * The First 30 Years of the Internet Braden, Bob Braden, Bob Braden, Bob