Lars Eggert

Lars Eggert is the Technical Director for Networking at NetApp, based near Helsinki, Finland.
Lars is an experienced technology leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, network architectures and protocol design, ranging from the Internet to datacenter to IoT/edge environments. He drives NetApp’s networking strategy through academic collaborations with top universities and open source collaborations.
Lars has been leading Internet standards for two decades as a member of the IETF’s steering group and architecture board. He has also chaired the IETF’s research arm, the IRTF. He currently chairs the QUIC working group, which designs a major new Internet protocol. He also serves on the program and organization committees of academic conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM and USENIX NSDI, as well as numerous other boards.
Lars received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003. Before joining NetApp in 2011, he was a Principal Scientist at Nokia and served on the corporation’s CTO and CEO Technology Councils. In parallel, from 2009-2014, Lars was an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University. From 2003-2006, he was a senior researcher at NEC Labs.
Roles
At Large Member of Internet Research Steering Group (irsg) | lars@eggert.org |
Chair of QUIC (quic) | lars@eggert.org |
Member of IAB/IESG Nominating Committee 2019/2020 (nomcom2019) | lars@eggert.org |
Member of IAB/IESG Nominating Committee 2019/2020 (nomcom2019) | lars@eggert.org |
Incoming Area Director of General Area (gen) | lars@eggert.org |
RFCs (20)
rfc3884 | Sep 2004 | Use of IPsec Transport Mode for Dynamic Routing Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc4858 | May 2007 | Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc5203 | Apr 2008 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration Extension Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc5204 | Apr 2008 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Extension Cited by 15 RFCs |
rfc5207 | Apr 2008 | NAT and Firewall Traversal Issues of Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Communication Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc5405 | Nov 2008 | Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers Cited by 89 RFCs |
rfc5482 | Mar 2009 | TCP User Timeout Option Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc6247 | May 2011 | Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc6335 | Aug 2011 | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry Cited by 79 RFCs |
rfc6417 | Nov 2011 | How to Contribute Research Results to Internet Standardization |
rfc6619 | Jun 2012 | Scalable Operation of Address Translators with Per-Interface Bindings Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc6771 | Oct 2012 | Considerations for Having a Successful "Bar BOF" Side Meeting Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc7295 | Jul 2014 | Report from the IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc7805 | Apr 2016 | Moving Outdated TCP Extensions and TCP-Related Documents to Historic or Informational Status |
rfc7827 | Mar 2016 | The Role of the IRTF Chair |
rfc8003 | Oct 2016 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration Extension Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc8004 | Oct 2016 | Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Extension Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc8085 | Mar 2017 | UDP Usage Guidelines Cited by 25 RFCs |
rfc8257 | Oct 2017 | Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc8312 | Feb 2018 | CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks Cited by 4 RFCs |
Active Drafts (1)
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-eggert-irtf-rfc2014bis
- draft-ietf-avtcore-mprtp
- draft-singh-rmcat-adaptive-fec
- draft-zimmermann-tcpm-undeployed
- draft-eggert-core-congestion-control
- draft-schuetz-tcpm-tcp-rlci
- draft-eggert-middlebox-control-survey
- draft-eggert-tcpm-tcp-retransmit-now
- draft-eggert-gont-tcpm-tcp-uto-option
- draft-eggert-hiprg-rr-prob-desc
- draft-eggert-hip-rendezvous
- draft-eggert-tcpm-tcp-abort-timeout-option
- draft-eggert-hip-rvs
- draft-touch-l3vn-arch