Pete Resnick, Applications Area
Pete Resnick has been working in the IETF since 1992, attending his first face-to-face meeting at IETF 32
in Danvers in 1995. He has written several RFCs (mostly in the area of Internet e-mail), chaired assorted Working
Groups and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, served on the Internet Architecture Board from 2002 to 2004, and has
been most active in the Applications Area, where he currently serves as Area Director. Pete holds a BA in Biological
Sciences and an MA in Philosophy and Computer and Systems Sciences from Binghamton University in New York.
He was a doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois
(where he still lives), but left to join Qualcomm Incorporated in 1994 as a software engineer on their Eudora
e-mail program. Pete is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the Chief Scientist at Qualcomm where he currently
leads the education effort on using open source software in Qualcomm products. In his (vanishingly little)
spare time, Pete serves as a expert witness in legal cases regarding spam email, teaches tai chi ch'uan (太極拳),
and is a SCUBA divemaster.