Andrew G. Malis

Principal at Malis Consulting, and Associate at Interisle Consulting Group. Available for contracting in telecommunications and networking product and protocol development and related standardization. Extensive experience in networking protocol architecture and evolution, product architecture and strategic planning, service provider network planning, technology transfer, leadership in international standardization bodies (IETF, Broadband Forum, ITU-T, Open Networking Foundation, etc.), standards authorship, and chairing and speaking roles at conferences and other industry events. Previously, has held senior engineering positions at Futurewei Technologies (Huawei's USA R&D subsidiary), Verizon Communications, Tellabs, Vivace Networks, Ascom Nexion, Ascend Communications, Cascade Communications, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and MITRE.

Roles

Chair of Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services (pals)	agmalis@gmail.com
Reviewer in Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir)	agmalis@gmail.com

RFCs (34)

rfc1294	Jan 1992	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc1490	Jul 1993	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc1755	Feb 1995	ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM Cited by 22 RFCs
rfc2363	Jul 1998	PPP Over FUNI Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc2364	Jul 1998	PPP Over AAL5 Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc2390	Sep 1998	Inverse Address Resolution Protocol Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc2427	Sep 1998	Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc2590	May 1999	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks Specification Cited by 8 RFCs
rfc2615	Jun 1999	PPP over SONET/SDH Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc2764	Feb 2000	A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc2917	Sep 2000	A Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture
rfc3034	Jan 2001	Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification Cited by 12 RFCs
rfc3212	Jan 2002	Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP Cited by 30 RFCs
rfc3496	Mar 2003	Protocol Extension for Support of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Service Class-aware Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering
rfc4618	Sep 2006	Encapsulation Methods for Transport of PPP/High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) over MPLS Networks Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc4619	Sep 2006	Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Frame Relay over Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc4623	Aug 2006	Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Fragmentation and Reassembly Cited by 12 RFCs
rfc4720	Nov 2006	Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Frame Check Sequence Retention Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc4816	Feb 2007	Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Transparent Cell Transport Service Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc4842	Apr 2007	Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) Circuit Emulation over Packet (CEP) Cited by 11 RFCs
rfc4901	Jun 2007	Protocol Extensions for Header Compression over MPLS
rfc5143	Feb 2008	Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) Circuit Emulation Service over MPLS (CEM) Encapsulation Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc5745	Dec 2009	Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream Cited by 1 RFC
rfc6658	Jul 2012	Packet Pseudowire Encapsulation over an MPLS PSN Cited by 1 RFC
rfc6827	Jan 2013	Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing for OSPFv2 Protocols Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc7079	Nov 2013	The Pseudowire (PW) and Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV) Implementation Survey Results Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc7226	May 2014	Requirements for Advanced Multipath in MPLS Networks Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7325	Aug 2014	MPLS Forwarding Compliance and Performance Requirements Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc7709	Nov 2015	Requirements for Very Fast Setup of GMPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
rfc7771	Jan 2016	Switching Provider Edge (S-PE) Protection for MPLS and MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Static Multi-Segment Pseudowires Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8012	Nov 2016	Label Switched Path (LSP) and Pseudowire (PW) Ping/Trace over MPLS Networks Using Entropy Labels (ELs) Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8469	Nov 2018	Recommendation to Use the Ethernet Control Word
rfc8596	Jun 2019	MPLS Transport Encapsulation for the Service Function Chaining (SFC) Network Service Header (NSH)
rfc8938	Nov 2020	Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane Framework Cited by 2 RFCs

Andrew G. Malis

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RFCs (34)

Active Drafts (9)

Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts