Welcome to Erik's Page

So who is Erik Huizer anyway?

I am married and a proud father of three beautiful daughters (Ajiet, Lotus and Dido). I do not drink any alcoholic beverages, so please don't offer me a beer or wine.

Since October 1st 2008 I am Scientific Director at the ICT division of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research(TNO). Before that I was Vice President for Internet and New Media at Technicolor. I am also a part-time professor Internet Applications at University of Utrecht. Topics I am involved in are: the introduction of HDTV in the Netherlands, User Generated Video Content and Social Networking as a marketing tool, Digital Video archives business models, Video for mobile, Twitter, DNS and the growing root, IPv6, Future Internet and Green ICT.

From june 2000 till december 2007 I was Director Strategy, innovation and Business Development with NOB Cross Media Facilities. From may 2000 till december 2004 I was part-time professor for Internet applications at Twente University. Until june 2000 I was managing director of the SURFnet Expertise Center (SURFnet ExpertiseCentrum, SEC). I have been strongly involved with the GigaPort project, the Dutch project for the next generation Internet.

Before that I used to work for SURFnet bv on projects that dealt with developing and introducing new services. I also initiated and participated in several EU projects, like the DESIRE 4th framework project. From december 1991 till april 1995 I was Area Director for the Applications area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as such a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). From 1995-2002 I was a member of the Internet Architecture Board. From 1999 till 2002 I was chairman of the Internet Research task Force (IRTF).

Currently I am chairing the Dutch national IPv6 Task Force. I am also chair of the Board of Trustees of Stichting NLnet. I am serving on the Board of Trustees for the Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland, The Board of Trustees of the Public Internet Registry (.org), the board of TRANS (Trans Sectoral Research Institute), the Advisory board of Bits of Freedom, the board of IIP Create, member of the Kamer van Morgen of Kennisnet and the Advisory Board of Internet Society Nederland. From 2002 till 2007 I was serving on the board of trustees of the Internet Society, from 2003-2006 I was serving on the Board of Directors of Eurofiber. From the start till mid 2000 I was member (later chairman) of the board of the Amsterdam Digital City (DDS), from 1999 to 2003 I was chairman of the board of The European Internet Seminars Foundation. I was a member of the Dutch Expert Group on Broadband, a member of the commissie Andriessen, a member of the Advisory Board for the Media- and Entertainment management program at the CHN university Netherlands and a pioneer member of the Internet Society. Co-founder of Electronic Commerce Platform NL and Internet Society Nederland.

What am I doing today?

You can find out what I am currently doing on Twitter.

Music

I used to sing in a band called "Frits en de Theezakken" that was fun. Nowadays I just listen to music. See my Last.FM page to find out what I am listening to these days.

Photo's

See my photo postings on Flickr

Video

I like making video items. Though I admit that I like editting and directing rather than the camera and sound stuff. Everything I made so far is targeted at specific audiences and way too boring (or too private) for Youtube.

Theatre

I love acting and directing. I used to direct a theatre choir until 2004. Biggest production was the Opera Carmen in 2003. Since then my daughters require my attention and my theatre ambitions have been shelved.

Some publications I wrote or contributed to

(full text not always available online due to IEEE or ACM copyright)

· Baaren, E., Van Wijngaert, L. de & Huizer, E. (2009), Not Another TAM paper' ; Relating individual and context characteristics to the adoption of HDTV, ICA 2009 conference, Chicago May 2009.

· E. Huizer, De noodzaak van IPv6, Digitaal Bestuur, februari 2008.

· Roel Huiden, Victor Scholte, Martijn van der Steen, Floris Vlasveld, Erik Huizer, Internet Broadcasting: Viable or Not? The Producers Point of View, Workshop Interactive Television Commerce and Advertising, 6th European Conference EuroITV 2008Salzburg, July 2008. Published in: Changing Television Environments, TICSP Adjunct Proceedings of EuroITV 2008 , Tampere 2008.

· Baaren E., van de Wijgaert L. & Huizer E., 'I want my HDTV' Underlying factors of perceived usefulness for High Definition Television", 6th European Conference EuroITV 2008Salzburg, July 2008. Published in Changing Television Environments, proceedings of the 6th European Conference EuroITV 2008, by Springer Berlin/Heidelberg

· Erik Huizer, De noodzaak van IPv6, Digitaal Bestuur, februari 2008

· Baaren E., van de Wijgaert L. & Huizer E., 'Who's afraid of High Def?' Institutional factors influencing the diffusion of HDTV in the Netherlands", IEEE IDCS08 conference Martinique, 2008.

· Wieringen, F.,Huizer, E., & Wijngaert, L. van de (). Catching the Consumer: HDTV as the application that drives user demand for broadband. In B. Preissl (Ed.), 17th European Regional Conference on Internation Telecommunication Society (pp. 1-5). ITS, Amsterdam, 2006.

· Grenzen zoeken, Grenzen verleggen (Dutch) Eindrapport van de werkgroep Overheid en Innovatie van het Innovatieplatform, May 2005.

· C. Hesselman, "Distribution of Multimedia Streams to Mobile Internet Users", Ph.D. thesis, University of Twente, the Netherlands, May 2005 [introduction (in Dutch)]

· C. Hesselman, H. Eertink, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, “Measurements of SIP Signaling over 802.11b Links”, Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH'05), Cologne, Germany, September 2005

· M. Kamilova, C. Hesselman, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, "Application-level Policies for Automatic Switching between Content Redistributors", Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN'05), Paris, France, June-July 2005.

· M. Kamilova, C. Hesselman, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, "Adding Policy-based Control to Mobile Hosts Switching between Streaming Proxies" (short paper), Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2005), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005

· Delivering Live Multimedia Streams to Mobile Hosts in a Wireless Internet with Multiple Content Aggregators, C. Hesselman, H. Eertink, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots, Volume 10, No. 3, , pp. 327-339, June 2005.

· Games – Meer dan spelen, ICT verkenningen voor het onderwijs , stichting Kennisnet, Zoetermeer, Beeksma, J. en Hulst, A. van der 2005.

· De toekomst van het auteursrecht (Dutch), Prof. dr. ir. E. Huizer Mr. Chr.A. Alberdingk Thijm Prof. mr. P.B. Hugenholtz Mr. K.J. Koelman, November 2004

· Het Nieuwe Informatierecht (preface, Dutch), Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, Academic service, Augustus 2004

· A Policy-based System for Handoffs between Intermediary Content Providers in the Wireless Internet (poster paper), M. Kamilova, C. Hesselman, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, Proceedings of the 13th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Lyon, France, [abstract] June 2004.

· Wireless & Mobile - Always on! ICT verkenningen voor het onderwijs, stichting Kennisnet, Zoetermeer, Beeksma, J. (red.) 2004,

· A Mobility-aware Broadcasting Infrastructure for a Wireless Internet with Hotspots, C. Hesselman, H. Eertink, I. Widya, and E. Huizer, “Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH'03), San Diego, USA, September 2003.

· Zorgen over wetsvoorstel Tweede Kamer, Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, Erik Huizer, Sjoera Nas en Maurice Wessling, Financieel Dagblad, feb. 2003

· Expert opinion on the KaZaA case, (Dutch), Erik Huizer, for the Amsterdam court, 2003.

· Burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid, column, Javi 2003.

· The end of the end-to-end Internet architecture? revised and with retrospective, 1stQ 2003, special issue I&I Magazine.

· Open brief namens 31 deskundigen op het gebied van technologie en auteursrecht (Dutch), various authors, October 2002

· A Comprehensive Framework for Broadcasting Multimedia Content in the Future Mobile Internet C. Hesselman, I. Widya, H. Eertink, and E. Huizer, July 2002.

· Nederland Breedbandland June 2002.

· Slim Graafwerk June 2001.

· Interview in Emerce October 2000.

· The end of the end-to-end Internet architecture? I&I Magazine, June 2000 (In Dutch).

· About the GigaPort project (in Dutch) and an updated version in English.

· For SURFnet Nieuws I wrote a series of articles on the organization and development of the Internet (in Dutch), Feb.-March 1998.

· RFC1616 with J. Romaguera, RARE WG-MSG Task Force 88 report, X.400(1988) for the Academic and Research Community in Europe, 1994

· RFC1603 with D. Crocker, IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures, 1994

· RFC1430 with S. Kille, V. Cerf, R. Hobby and S. Kent, A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, 1993

· With P. Jurg, Introducing a Directory Service, SURFnet, 1995

· With E. Jeunink, Directory Services and Privacy Issues, JENC 1993, Trondheim.