Frederick J. Baker (born February 28, 1952), is an American engineer, specializing in developing computer network protocols for the Internet.

[1] He became a Cisco Fellow in 1998, working in university relations and as a research ambassador, and in the IETF.

He has co-authored or edited over fifty Request for Comments (RFC) documents on Internet protocols and contributed to others.

[8] He has worked as liaison to other standards organizations such as the ITU-T.[9] In 2009 he became chair of the RFC Series Oversight Committee.

[10] He co-chaired the IPv6 Operations Working Group in the IETF,[11] represented the IETF on the National Institute of Standards and Technology Smart Grid Smart Grid Interoperability Panel[12] and Architecture Committee (until 2013),[13] and was Cisco's representative to a Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group.