Robert Sparks

Robert is a member of the the Tools Development team, and is the Tools Project Manager. He is a co-chair of the STIR working group, and is a past-chair of the SIMPLE and GEOPRIV working groups.Robert Sparks was on the Internet Architecture board 2015-2019, and served as the program lead for the RFC Editor program, and as the IAB shepherd for the liaison relationship with 3GPP. Robert was a member of the RFC Series Oversight Committee from 2014-2019. Robert was an Area Director for the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure area from 2009-2013. He is a co-author of the core SIP specification and several of its updates and extensions, and has focused on improving the level of interoperability of SIP implementations by coordinating the SIPit interoperability events. He is also an active open source contributor. Robert served as a Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, Principal Engineer at Tekelec, VP of Research and Development at Estacado Systems, CTO at Xten Networks (now CounterPath), and has held management and research positions at dynamicsoft, Lucent, Worldcom and Texas A&M University. Robert has a BSc in Computer Science and a MSc in Mathematics from Texas A&M University.

Roles

Chair of The Tools Team (tools)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Chair of Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (stir)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Liaison Member of Tools Architecture and Strategy Team (tools-arch)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Member of The Tools Team (tools)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Reviewer in General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) (genart)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Reviewer in Internet of Things Directorate (iotdir)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Reviewer in Security Area Directorate (secdir)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
Tech Advisor of IAB/IESG Nominating Committee 2019/2020 (nomcom2019)	rjsparks@nostrum.com
YangCatalog Operator of YangCatalog Support (ycsupport)	rjsparks@nostrum.com

RFCs (28)

rfc3087	Apr 2001	Control of Service Context using SIP Request-URI Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc3261	Jul 2002	SIP: Session Initiation Protocol Cited by 500 RFCs
rfc3420	Nov 2002	Internet Media Type message/sipfrag Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc3515	Apr 2003	The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Refer Method Cited by 49 RFCs
rfc3665	Jan 2004	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Basic Call Flow Examples Cited by 18 RFCs
rfc3666	Jan 2004	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Call Flows Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc3892	Sep 2004	The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Referred-By Mechanism Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc4317	Dec 2005	Session Description Protocol (SDP) Offer/Answer Examples Cited by 1 RFC
rfc4320	Jan 2006	Actions Addressing Identified Issues with the Session Initiation Protocol's (SIP) Non-INVITE Transaction Cited by 8 RFCs
rfc4321	Jan 2006	Problems Identified Associated with the Session Initiation Protocol's (SIP) Non-INVITE Transaction Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc4475	May 2006	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Torture Test Messages Cited by 17 RFCs
rfc5057	Nov 2007	Multiple Dialog Usages in the Session Initiation Protocol Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc5118	Feb 2008	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Torture Test Messages for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Cited by 1 RFC
rfc5359	Oct 2008	Session Initiation Protocol Service Examples Cited by 19 RFCs
rfc5393	Dec 2008	Addressing an Amplification Vulnerability in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Forking Proxies Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5589	Jun 2009	Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Transfer Cited by 15 RFCs
rfc5657	Sep 2009	Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for Advancement to Draft Standard Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc5727	Mar 2010	Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Cited by 37 RFCs
rfc5850	May 2010	A Call Control and Multi-Party Usage Framework for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
rfc6026	Sep 2010	Correct Transaction Handling for 2xx Responses to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE Requests Cited by 1 RFC
rfc6216	Apr 2011	Example Call Flows Using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Security Mechanisms
rfc6778	Oct 2012	Requirements for Archiving IETF Email Lists and for Providing Web-Based Browsing and Searching Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7017	Aug 2013	IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives
rfc7614	Aug 2015	Explicit Subscriptions for the REFER Method Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7647	Sep 2015	Clarifications for the Use of REFER with RFC 6665 Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7735	Jan 2016	Tracking Reviews of Documents
rfc7842	Apr 2016	Requirements for Improvements to the IETF Email List Archiving, Web-Based Browsing, and Search Tool
rfc8217	Aug 2017	Clarifications for When to Use the name-addr Production in SIP Messages Cited by 2 RFCs

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Robert Sparks

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