Bob Hinden
(Robert M. Hinden)

Bob Hinden is the co-inventor of IPv6. He is a Check Point Fellow at Check Point Software, co-chairs the IETF 6MAN IPv6 working group. Bob Hinden was co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE Internet Award for pioneering work in the development of the first Internet routers.
Bob Hinden was the Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2016, and a member of the Board of Trustees from 2010-2016. Previously at Nokia, he was a Nokia Fellow, Chief Internet Technologist at Nokia Networks, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at the Nokia IP Routing Group.
Bob Hinden was one of the early employees (i.e., employee number 4) of Ipsilon Networks, Inc. Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia on December 31, 1997. He was previously employed at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for the Internet Engineering group that implements internet protocols for Sun's operating systems. Prior to this he worked at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. on a variety of internetwork related projects including the first operational internet router and one of the first TCP/IP implementations.
Bob Hinden was co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE Internet Award for pioneering work in the development of the first Internet routers.
Bob Hinden has been active in the IETF since 1985 and is the author of forty two RFCs, including three April 1 RFCs. He served as the chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2009 through 2013. Prior to this he served on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), was Area Director for Routing in the Internet Engineering Steering group from 1987 to 1994, and chaired the IPv6, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Simple Internet Protocol Plus, IPAE, the IP over ATM, and the Open Routing working groups. He is also a member of the RFC Editorial Board and the RFC Series Oversight Committee.
Bob Hinden holds an B.S.E.E., and a M.S. in Computer Science from Union College, Schenectady, New York.
Roles
At Large Member of The Tools Team (tools) | bob.hinden@gmail.com |
Chair of IPv6 Maintenance (6man) | bob.hinden@gmail.com |
RFCs (42)
rfc1151 | Apr 1990 | Version 2 of the Reliable Data Protocol (RDP) Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc1264 | Oct 1991 | Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Routing Protocol Standardization Criteria Cited by 30 RFCs |
rfc1517 | Sep 1993 | Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc1710 | Oct 1994 | Simple Internet Protocol Plus White Paper Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc1883 | Dec 1995 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification Cited by 32 RFCs |
rfc1884 | Dec 1995 | IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Cited by 26 RFCs |
rfc1897 | Jan 1996 | IPv6 Testing Address Allocation Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc1955 | Jun 1996 | New Scheme for Internet Routing and Addressing (ENCAPS) for IPNG Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc1987 | Aug 1996 | Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 Cited by 7 RFCs |
rfc2073 | Jan 1997 | An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc2297 | Mar 1998 | Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0 Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc2338 | Apr 1998 | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Cited by 7 RFCs |
rfc2373 | Jul 1998 | IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Cited by 87 RFCs |
rfc2374 | Jul 1998 | An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format Cited by 15 RFCs |
rfc2375 | Jul 1998 | IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments Cited by 13 RFCs |
rfc2450 | Dec 1998 | Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rule Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc2460 | Dec 1998 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification Cited by 334 RFCs |
rfc2471 | Dec 1998 | IPv6 Testing Address Allocation Cited by 10 RFCs |
rfc2675 | Aug 1999 | IPv6 Jumbograms Cited by 18 RFCs |
rfc2732 | Dec 1999 | Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's Cited by 22 RFCs |
rfc2928 | Sep 2000 | Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments Cited by 5 RFCs |
rfc3513 | Apr 2003 | Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture Cited by 62 RFCs |
rfc3587 | Aug 2003 | IPv6 Global Unicast Address Format Cited by 9 RFCs |
rfc3701 | Mar 2004 | 6bone (IPv6 Testing Address Allocation) Phaseout Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc3768 | Apr 2004 | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Cited by 7 RFCs |
rfc4193 | Oct 2005 | Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses Cited by 70 RFCs |
rfc4291 | Feb 2006 | IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Cited by 187 RFCs |
rfc4311 | Nov 2005 | IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc5075 | Nov 2007 | IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option |
rfc5175 | Mar 2008 | IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc6214 | Mar 2011 | Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc6874 | Feb 2013 | Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc6921 | Apr 2013 | Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc8136 | Apr 2017 | Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6 |
rfc8200 | Jul 2017 | Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification Cited by 61 RFCs |
rfc8201 | Jul 2017 | Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6 Cited by 28 RFCs |
rfc8507 | Dec 2018 | Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) Specification |
rfc869 | Dec 1983 | Host Monitoring Protocol Cited by 23 RFCs |
rfc8713 | Feb 2020 | IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall Committees Cited by 5 RFCs |
rfc8728 | Feb 2020 | RFC Editor Model (Version 2) Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc8730 | Feb 2020 | Independent Submission Editor Model Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc8900 | Sep 2020 | IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile Cited by 6 RFCs |
Active Drafts (2)
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-odonoghue-netrqmts
- draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag
- draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis
- draft-hinden-6man-rfc2464bis
- draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec
- draft-hain-ipv6-ulac
- draft-ietf-ipv6-ula-central
- draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr
- draft-hinden-ipv6-sl-moderate
- draft-hinden-ipv6-global-site-local
- draft-hinden-ipv6-host-load-sharing
- draft-ietf-ipngwg-jumbo
- draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-arch
- draft-minnear-igrpng
- draft-hinden-ipng-overview
- draft-hinden-ipng-addr
- draft-ietf-sipp-routing-addr
- draft-ietf-sipp-ipae-transition
- draft-crocker-ip-encaps
- draft-ietf-ipae-ipv7-criteria
- draft-ietf-ipae-new-ip