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 Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director of Routing In Fat Trees (rift)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director of Link State Vector Routing (lsvr)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director of Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg)	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 Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp)	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 Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com
Chair of Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com
Liaison Contact of Source Packet Routing in Networking (spring)	aretana@cisco.com
Member of Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability (edm)	aretana.ietf@gmail.com

RFCs (15)

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 8 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

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Alvaro Retana

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