Adam Roach

Adam Roach has worked in the IETF since 1998 as a key contributor to to real-time communication technologies, and served as an Area Director for the Applications and Real-Time (ART) area of the IETF from 2017 through 2020. He has authored 21 RFCs, including RFC 3265, which forms the basis of numerous core features of the SIP protocol. He has previously served as a chair for the XCON, SIPCORE, and NETVC working groups. Adam has also contributed to work in 3GPP and W3C.
Adam is currently a Principal Engineer at Caffeine. Prior to joining Caffeine, Adam worked at Mozilla to implement and standardize WebRTC, served as a member of Tekelec's CTO Team, and was a partner at Estacado Systems.
Roles
Member of RFC Series Oversight Committee (RSOC) (rfcedprog) | adam@nostrum.com |
Member of RFC Series Oversight Committee (rsoc) | adam@nostrum.com |
RFCs (21)
rfc3265 | Jul 2002 | Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event Notification Cited by 83 RFCs |
rfc3266 | Jul 2002 | Support for IPv6 in Session Description Protocol (SDP) Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc3398 | Dec 2002 | Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Mapping Cited by 10 RFCs |
rfc3485 | Mar 2003 | The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP) Static Dictionary for Signaling Compression (SigComp) Cited by 5 RFCs |
rfc3578 | Aug 2003 | Mapping of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) Overlap Signalling to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc4077 | May 2005 | A Negative Acknowledgement Mechanism for Signaling Compression Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc4662 | Aug 2006 | A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Notification Extension for Resource Lists Cited by 15 RFCs |
rfc4896 | Jun 2007 | Signaling Compression (SigComp) Corrections and Clarifications Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc4976 | Sep 2007 | Relay Extensions for the Message Sessions Relay Protocol (MSRP) Cited by 11 RFCs |
rfc5363 | Oct 2008 | Framework and Security Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) URI-List Services Cited by 10 RFCs |
rfc5367 | Oct 2008 | Subscriptions to Request-Contained Resource Lists in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc5989 | Oct 2010 | A SIP Event Package for Subscribing to Changes to an HTTP Resource Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc6140 | Mar 2011 | Registration for Multiple Phone Numbers in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc6544 | Mar 2012 | TCP Candidates with Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Cited by 8 RFCs |
rfc6665 | Jul 2012 | SIP-Specific Event Notification Cited by 15 RFCs |
rfc6873 | Feb 2013 | Format for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Common Log Format (CLF) Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc6878 | Mar 2013 | IANA Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) "Priority" Header Field Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc7621 | Aug 2015 | A Clarification on the Use of Globally Routable User Agent URIs (GRUUs) in the SIP Event Notification Framework |
rfc7647 | Sep 2015 | Clarifications for the Use of REFER with RFC 6665 Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc7742 | Mar 2016 | WebRTC Video Processing and Codec Requirements Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc8723 | Apr 2020 | Double Encryption Procedures for the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) Cited by 2 RFCs |
Active Drafts (2)
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-roach-bis-documents
- draft-abr-twitter-reply
- draft-roach-id-cite
- draft-roach-perc-webrtc
- draft-thomson-xmpp-secure
- draft-ivov-mmusic-sdpfrag
- draft-roach-mmusic-pof-pan
- draft-roach-mmusic-groupid
- draft-roach-mmusic-unified-plan
- draft-roach-dime-overload-ctrl
- draft-roach-rtcweb-plan-a
- draft-roach-rtcweb-glareless-add
- draft-campbell-dime-overload-data-analysis
- draft-roach-mmusic-mlines
- draft-roach-sipcore-priority
- draft-roach-martini-up
- draft-roach-sipping-clf-syntax
- draft-lowekamp-mmusic-ice-tcp-framework
- draft-roach-sip-list-subscribe-bodies
- draft-roach-xcon-chatroom-analysis
- draft-roach-sipping-callcomp-bfcp
- draft-roach-sip-herfp-avoidance
- draft-camarillo-sipping-uri-list
- draft-ietf-sipping-uri-list
- draft-camarillo-sipping-adhoc-simple
- draft-roach-simple-service-features
- draft-roach-sip-409
- draft-roach-simple-blconf
- draft-roach-sigcomp-nack
- draft-roach-sip-list-template
- draft-olson-sdp-ipv6
- draft-ietf-sip-isup
- draft-ietf-sip-overlap
- draft-roach-sip-subscribe-notify
- draft-camarillo-sip-isup
- draft-roach-voip-ringtone
- draft-roach-sip-acb
- draft-camarillo-sip-isup-bcp
- draft-ietf-sip-183
- draft-camarillo-mmusic-sip-isup-bcp
- draft-roach-mmusic-sip-pstn-require-header
- draft-donovan-mmusic-183
- draft-roach-mmusic-sip-provisional-media
- draft-roach-sip-isup-parameters