Allison Mankin

Allison Mankin is an American computer scientist and prominent figure in Internet governance. She previously served as Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair and has held numerous leadership positions within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which develops Internet standards. In the mid-1990s, in anticipation of the internet growing beyond the capabilities of then-current IP addressing schemes, Mankin, alongside Scott Bradner, was tasked by the IETF to head the new Internet Protocol Next Generation (IPng) area, which designed and defined the next generation of IP addressing, eventually publishing its recommendation and coining the name IPv6. In 1993 Mankin founded the Systers program at the IETF, an informal mentoring and networking initiative for women in tech.