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 Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) | 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 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 Area (rtg) | aretana.ietf@gmail.com |
| Area Director of Inter-Domain Routing (idr) | 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 |
RFCs
| rfc3021 | Dec 2000 | Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links Cited by 6 RFCs |
| rfc3137 | Jun 2001 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement Cited by 7 RFCs |
| rfc3345 | Aug 2002 | Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Persistent Route Oscillation Condition Cited by 10 RFCs |
| rfc4276 | Jan 2006 | BGP-4 Implementation Report Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc6860 | Jan 2013 | Hiding Transit-Only Networks in OSPF Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc6969 | Jul 2013 | OSPFv3 Instance ID Registry Update Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc6987 | Sep 2013 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement Cited by 7 RFCs |
| 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 Cited by 10 RFCs |
| rfc7964 | Sep 2016 | Solutions for BGP Persistent Route Oscillation Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc7980 | Oct 2016 | A Framework for Defining Network Complexity |
| rfc8099 | Feb 2017 | OSPF Topology-Transparent Zone |
| rfc8687 | Nov 2019 | OSPF Routing with Cross-Address Family Traffic Engineering Tunnels |
| rfc8736 | Feb 2020 | PIM Message Type Space Extension and Reserved Bits |
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