Ole J. Jacobsen has been active in the computer networking field since 1976 when he went to work for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, an early ARPANET site. Ole was with Interop Company (now Ziff Davis) since shortly after its formation in 1987 until 1998. He was the Editor Publisher of ConneXions---The Interoperability Report, a monthly technical journal in the field of computer-communications, published by Interop Company. Jacobsen holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computing Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He is the Editor and Publisher of The Internet Protocol Journal (http://www.cisco.com/ipj), a quarterly technical publication for Internet and intranet professionals published by Cisco Systems. He serves on the board of the Asia and Pacific Internet Association (http://apia.org) and works on several international program committees for networking events such as INET, APRICOT (http://www.apricot.net) and NetWorld+Interop (http://www.interop.com). Ole is a member of ACM, The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, The American Guild of Organists (http://www.agohq.org) and the House Rabbit (http://www.rabbit.org) Society. He can be reached at ole@cisco.com.