¶ Routing Directorate Members Experience and Interests
This page gives a very brief summary of the experience and interests of the members of the Routing Area Directorate. It is intended to give the ADs and Administrators some clues when they are looking for specific skills or clue.
When you joins the Routing Directorate, you should update this wiki page. Please update your entry and keep updating it as your interests change. But please don't add too much detail.
¶ Directorate Experience and Interests
¶ Loa Andersson (last updated : 2014-04-22)
- Coded LDP (well it was an experimental version and started with TDP)
- Written/co-authored RFCs 3036, 3212, 3468, 4026, 4664, 4691, 4928, 4929, 4948, 5037, 5317, 5462, 5505, 5828, 6291, 6373, 7087, which is mostly mpls, ccamp and l2vpn, as well as wg house-keeping
- Follow CCAMP, L2VPN, PWE3, L3VPN, BFD and PCE
- Chair MPLS
- Chair GELS BoF
- Interested in network architecture
- Have some operational experience from academic test network and nation wide network
- Have co-authored some RFCs in OSPF, AUTOCONF, MANET, ROLL, and TSVWG;
- Have coded a tiny OLSRv1 implementation, and parts of OSPFv3 and RPL;
- I am an active participant and co-founder of the open source communities developing the IoT operating systems Ariel OS and RIOT;
- Interests include low-power and low memory footprint protocols for Internet of Things, and spontaneous, multi-hop wireless networks, of the managed and unmanaged kinds, information centric networking, cybersecurity and tiny machine learning;
- Aiming to follow working groups such as CoRE, SUIT, 6lo, T2TRG, ROLL, iotops, lpwan, lwig...
- Authored numerous RFCs, mostly related to GMPLS and RSVP, but also some LMP, OSPF, BGP, L1VPN. More recently have been doing working on Yang, DetNet and DLEP
If really interested look here
- Co-chair: TEAS, NetMod, DetNet
Past chair of: CCAMP, ST2 (a long time ago) and a couple of BoFs (SDN most recently)
- Tracking many RTG and some OPS WGs (now dormant) RRG
- Member of the ANRP Nomination Committee and dormant RSVP Directorate and
- Maintainer and contributor to FRRouting fork of Quagga/Zebra
- Coded 1822, ST, IPv4 and v5 forwarding paths, 802.1D, RSVP, RSVP-TE (MPLS & GMPLS), some EGP, OSPF, BGP, SIP, DIAMETER, and others I’m sure I’m forgetting.
- Coded several BGP features for a router vendor many moons ago.
- Written/co-authored RFCs in OSPF, IS-IS, KARP, IPv6, BFD, IPSecME WGs
- Designed and implemented L3 data path on several Alcatel-Lucent switch/router products.
- Interested in SDN and clouds (isnt everyone these days is?)
- Co-chair of BESS, NVO3 and member of the IAB
- Former co-chair of PWE3 and ANCP
- Co-author of numerous Pseudowire and MPLS RFCs
- Also interested in data center networks, traffic engineering, L2VPNs/L3VPNs, control protocols, and OAM technologies
- Background in multi-service edge, aggregation and core router architecture and design
- Extensive experience of network modelling and simulation
- Past co-chair CCAMP WG
- Past co-chair L3VPN WG
- Authored RFCs in MPLS, L3VPN and BESS WGs
- Former Routing Area Director
- Former Chair PWE3
- PWE3 Registries Technical Expert
- Former Chair TICTOC
- Active in MPLS, RTGWG
- Current Interest in Tunnels, FRR and SDN technologies
- Some knowledge of the IGPs and VPN technologies
- SUNSET RTG Advisior
- Formerly active in IPFIX
- Co-chair CCAMP -
- BoF Co-Chair: ACTN. Co-author of framework, requirements and info model in TEAS
- Co-author of RFCs in CCAMP, TEAS and MPLS.
- Active in CCAMP, TEAS, PCE, MPLS(less)
- Paying some attention to SPRING, I2RS, RTGWG, Network slicing
- Working experience: GMPLS system management and network architecture, transport SDN product management.
- Coded BGP, MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs
- Active in MPLS, BFD, PWE3, PCE, SPRING
- Follow CCAMP, IDR, I2RS, OSPF, ISIS, IPPM, L2VPN, L3VPN
- Author/co-author RFCs and drafts in CCAMP, IDR, MPLS, BFD, OSPF, ISIS, PWE3, L2VPN etc.
- Currently interested in SDN and network virtualization
- Mostly active in BGP (IDR, possibly GROW in OPS if relevant), LSR (IS-IS) and SPRING.
- co-chair SPRING WG
- Have written/co-authored the following draft/RFC mostly related to SPRING, BGP (IDR, GROW), RTGWG, IS-IS, MPLS datatracker
- Working for service provider.
- Other interests
- unicast FRR, link state IGP loop free convergence (RTGWG)
- Link State IGP (IS-IS, RTGWG)
- Used to be active in L3 VPN BGP/MPLS unicast but not any more.
- Some following and contributions in MPLS.
- Main interests/skills in signalling and connection-oriented networks.
- Especially traffic engineering and path computation
- So that's MPLS, GMPLS, and PCE
- Current interests also include Network Slicing and SDN
- Reasonably competent at all things routing
- Pedant about English and IETF process
- Co-chair CATS working group
- Used to co-chair L1VPN, PCE, CCAMP, L3SM, L2SM, I2NSF, MPLS
- Technical advisor to TEAS WG
- Was a RTG AD once upon a time
- Currently on OPSDIR
- Designated "NMOP Terminology Fairy"
- Written a few RFCs
- Served as ISE from February 2018 to February 2022
- Former Co-Chair KARP, SFC, and LISP WGs
- Co-Chair Savnet and SPRING
- Active in MPLS and TEAS
- Follow ongoing IPv6 related WGs
- Former Routing AD (long ago)
- following many other RTG WGs
- Co-authored drafts in transport (diff-serv) and O&M (Policy Management)
- WG chair in I2RS, IDR, TRILL
- Active in I2RS, IDR, BESS, SIDR and all thing SDN related
- Active in SFC, ForCES,Spring, TEAS, OSPF, ISIS
- Familar with CCAMP, MPLS, PCE, and PAL
- On OPS-DIR and able to read MIB or Yang modules
- Co-Chair LSR WG
- Currently working at LabN Consulting, LLC
- Have worked on routing, and systems software for Cisco, Procket, Allegro Networks, NextHop Technologies and GateD.
- Have worked on network design, automation and optical control software for the Terastream project @ Deutsche Telekom.
- Also authored IPsec/IP-TFS RFC and initial Linux implementation.
- Active in LSR(rtg), IPsec(sec), Yang(ops), follow other WGs.
- [Co]-Authored various RFCs.
- Longtime NetBSD Developer
- Co-Chair LSR WG and LSVR WG
- Currently Distinguished Engineer at Arrcus, Inc.
- Have also worked on routing for Cisco IOS, Redback SEOS, Ericsson IPOS, Cisco NXOS, and FRR Routing
- Active in LSR, LSVR, IDR, TSVR, and RTG WGs.
- Co-Authored RFCs in OSPF, LSR, LSVR, RTG, IDR, CCAMP, MIP, and VRRP WGs.
- Interested in routing scaling, segment routing, and management/monitoring or routing.
¶ Andy Malis (last updated : 11 January 2019)
- Co-chair of PALS WG
- Former (co-)chair of PWE3, IPATM, FRNETMIB, ROLC, other WGs and BOFs lost to history
- Former IAB member
- Authored/co-authored 40+ RFCs (largely but not all related to ARPANET, multiprotocol encapsulation over various layer 2 technologies, MPLS, pseudowires, and other MPLS applications & offshoots)
- Currently primarily working on Detnet, service chaining, and related areas
- Outside the IETF, have been active/authored specs in (roughly chronological order) Frame Relay Forum, ATM Forum, MPLS Forum, Broadband Forum, ITU-T, ETSI NFV ISG, and the ONF
- Wrote ARPANET IMP and X.25 PSN code back in the dawn of time
- Co-chair of the PCE WG
- Follows CCAMP, MPLS, OSPF, I2RS, SPRING...
- Co-authored several RFCs in CCAMP and PCE
- Implemented some pieces of LMP (a decade ago)
- Secretary of the SFC WG.
- Active in NVO3, DETNET, IPPM, NTP, TICTOC.
- Contributed to IEEE 1588, ONF.
- Interested in the data plane aspects of routing, time synchronization, timestamping, OAM, performance measurement.
- Used to chair L3VPN WG
- Architected MPLS & PWE3 networks at a large operator
- Involved in the early days of MPLS-TP
- Played with some OSPF-TE & RSVP-TE code a long time ago as part of a research project
- I spend most of my time outside of the routing/networking space these days.
- Written RFCs on BMWG, L2tpext, Intarea, MPLS, Opsec, OSPF, PWE3, RTGWG, Softwire, and April 1st.
- Co-chairs L2tpext
- Follows 6MAN, BFD, I2RS, SFC, Spring
- Interested in Complexity, SDN, Operations, OAM, Open Source
- Co-chair BIER
- IGP/EGP/BESS/TEAS/SPRING
- mobile if needed
- former co-chair ROLL, now secretary
- not a traditional IGP/EGP geek; just operational experience in the field
- sometimes Zebra/Quagga/FRR hacker
- frequent Linux routing and IPsec hacker
- mostly focused on 6tisch, ROLL and ANIMA. Overlays are my thing
- Written DAT Metric draft for MANET group
- Follows MANET, HOMENET and MPTCP
- Coding NHDP, OLSRV2 (including extensions) and DLEP for embedded hardware (see www.olsr.org)
- Main interests: Mesh Routing (including relation to Layer 2)
- Other interests: Lightweight Security, IPv6, Autoconfiguration
- Co-chair of ROLL
- Interested in RPL, and IoT Management.
- Doing a PhD related to IoT Management.
¶ Andy Smith (last updated: 26 Jan 2018)
- Actively following MPLS, PCE, SPRING, SRv6, 6MAN
- Somewhat following HOMENET, SFC
- Background in cable broadband, DOCSIS, linear/fragmented video, large metro networks
- Always interested in network architecture, monetization, protocol design, regulation, open source
- Serving as SPRING Secretary
- Co-chair ART DISPATCH
- Primarily active in Routing, INT, and ART area
- Interested in network architecture and protocol design
- Actively following PWE3, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS
- Trying to follow I2RS, NVO3, SPRING (just started)
- Written RFCs on TDM PWs
- Major focus: Network design and architecture; Router design and architecture
- Never chaired anything/never has been on NOC
- Co-chair pim
- Written RFCs in multicast
- Major focus: multicast routing
- Follow IDR, SPRING, LSR, and RTGWG
- Major Focus: Network Design and Architecture; protocol deployment, security, privacy
- Interest in: open source, anything related to control plane and design
- Follow mainly MANET, DTN, NETCONF, NETMOD
- Interests in ad hoc networking and network management
- Co-chair of PCE WG and SRv6OPS
- Also an IAB member, EODIR co-chair and various IAB activities
- Author of RFCs in PCE, TEAS, MPLS, SPRING, ALTO, NTP, IAB, etc
- Primarily active in Routing and Ops area
- Coded PCE, TE, as well as VPN, NTP, OSPF long time back.
- Active in OSPF, RTGWG, SPRING and NETMOD.
- Also following ISIS, IDR, SFC and DETNET.
- Interested in: network architecture, routing protocols, network operations and design.
¶ Zheng(Sandy) Zhang (last updated : 2025-04-15)
- Serving as BIER Secretary, Delegate of BIER and PIM WG
- Activly follows: BIER, PIM, MBONED, LSR, RIFT, IDR, BESS, RTGWG, etc.
- Following WGs in RTG, OPS, INT areas.
- Interested in routing protocols, network operations, data center related, etc.
- Co-chair of MANET and BABEL WGs
- Former Co-Chair of TRILL, PPPEXT, XMLDSIG and other WGs
- Also a member of the Security and Internet Directorates
- Former Chair of IEEE 802.11s and 802.11ak
¶ Andrew Alston (last updated : 2026-02-11）
- Previous routing area director
- Actively follow IDR, SPRING and MPLS
- Have coding experience implementing BGP and ISIS daemons for specific projects
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