Alvaro Retana
Alvaro Retana is VP, Technology Strategy in the Future Networks group at Futurewei Technologies. He also chairs the IETF-LAC Task Force for LACNOG, with the objective of increasing the participation of people from Latin America and the Caribbean in the IETF. He has published 4 technical books and has been awarded multiple patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Alvaro has been participating in the IETF since 1998, mainly in the Routing Area. He previously co-chaired Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg) and the Source Packet Routing in Networking WG (spring), and has co-authored several documents on routing technology. Alvaro currently serves as Routing Area Director.
Roles
| Area Director of Technology Deep Dive (tdd) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Link State Routing (lsr) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Routing In Fat Trees (rift) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (bier) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (roll) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Protocols for IP Multicast (pim) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Inter-Domain Routing (idr) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Routing Area (rtg) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
RFCs
| rfc3021 | Dec 2000 | Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links |
| rfc3137 | Jun 2001 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement |
| rfc3345 | Aug 2002 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Persistent Route Oscillation Condition |
| rfc4276 | Jan 2006 | BGP-4 Implementation Report |
| rfc6860 | Jan 2013 | Hiding Transit-Only Networks in OSPF |
| rfc6969 | Jul 2013 | OSPFv3 Instance ID Registry Update |
| rfc6987 | Sep 2013 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement |
| rfc6992 | Jul 2013 | Routing for IPv4-Embedded IPv6 Packets |
| rfc7137 | Feb 2014 | Use of the OSPF-MANET Interface in Single-Hop Broadcast Networks |
| rfc7911 | Jul 2016 | Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP |
| rfc7964 | Sep 2016 | Solutions for BGP Persistent Route Oscillation |
| rfc7980 | Oct 2016 | A Framework for Defining Network Complexity |
| rfc8099 | Feb 2017 | OSPF Topology-Transparent Zone |
Active Drafts
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-ietf-idr-custom-decision
- draft-white-grow-overlapping-routes
- draft-chen-ospf-te-ttz
- draft-elkins-ietf-remote-hubs
- draft-oflaherty-ietf-remote-hubs-lac
- draft-ietf-idr-add-paths-implementation
- draft-fmejia-opsec-origin-a-country
- draft-retana-sidr-origin-validation-cost-community
- draft-retana-idr-aigp-cost-community
- draft-retana-rtgwg-eacp
- draft-white-i2rs-use-case
- draft-white-bgpbgp
- draft-zhang-idr-transitive-gr
- draft-retana-ospf-ils
- draft-xl-trill-over-wan
- draft-yang-ospf-hiding
- draft-retana-bgp-security-state-diagnostic
- draft-retana-marp
- draft-berkowitz-bgpcon