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ANDERSEN Erik

AndersenErikErik Andersen is the Rapporteur for the ITU-T Study Group 17 Question on “Generic Technologies to support secure applications”. Erik is the Project Editor for X.500 and edited the latest five editions. He has been involved in the X.500 standardization since 1984 and participated in and chaired X.500 workshops.

Erik has Since 1995 worked as an independent consultant.

Erik worked for IBM for 27 years starting in the IBM semiconductor division in Vermont, USA, working on integrated circuits. Later joined IBM Denmark as a System Engineer ending as a Senior System Engineer. He was most of the time working as data communications and protocol specialist. Was the IBM Denmark’s top specialist on IBM’s Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Represented IBM in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standardization work.

Erik took a M.S degree in Electronics and Physics at the Danish Technical University in 1965.