This is part of the video series The Voices of Ethernet.
Paul Nikolich has been chair of the IEEE 802 Working Group since 2001. In this interview with Ethernet Alliance chair Peter Jones for The Voices of Ethernet oral history archive, Nikolich describes the importance of standards development and how it offers an opportunity to take an idea and enable it to be deployed widely on a global scale with Ethernet as a prime example.
“Fifty years, it’s been dramatic…the Ethernet group has been tremendously flexible in developing the interfaces for a wide range of target end applications very, very successfully”
Paul Nikolich