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Dhruv Dhody
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Dhruv Dhody is the Principal Engineer at Huawei-India. They have been with Huawei for more than 20 years. They are currently working on research & standards for various technologies such as Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing and SDN technologies. They have been an active IETF contributor since 2010 in the Routing area with a focus on Path Computation, Traffic Engineering and SDN. They serve on the Internet Architecture Board as a board member and an IAB liaison to the IESG as well as the IAB Outreach Coordinator. They also co-chair the PCE WG and EO-DIR. They are part of the Routing and Operations Directorate. In the past, they also served on the IETF list moderator's team.

Apart from the technical work, they also focus on increasing IETF participation from the Asia/Pacific and other under-represented regions and advancing diversity and inclusion in the Industry.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Path Computation Element (pce) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Chair SRv6 Operations (srv6ops) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Chair Education and Outreach Directorate (eodir) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Chair IAB Workshop on Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) (biasws) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Liaison Contact Path Computation Element (pce) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Member IETF-IANA (ietfiana) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Member Nominating Committee 2021/2022 (nomcom2021) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Member Internet Architecture Board (iab) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Member IAB-ISOC Policy Coordination (iabisoc) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Reviewer Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) dd@dhruvdhody.com
Reviewer Ops Directorate (opsdir) dd@dhruvdhody.com

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username dhruvdhody
Additional Web Page https://dhruvdhody.com/publications

RFCs (19)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 7334 Aug 2014 PCE-Based Computation Procedure to Compute Shortest Constrained Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Inter-Domain Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths 2 RFCs
RFC 7896 Jun 2016 Update to the Include Route Object (IRO) Specification in the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) 1 RFC
RFC 7897 Jun 2016 Domain Subobjects for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) 3 RFCs
RFC 7898 Jun 2016 Domain Subobjects for Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) 1 RFC
RFC 8232 Sep 2017 Optimizations of Label Switched Path State Synchronization Procedures for a Stateful PCE 9 RFCs
RFC 8233 Sep 2017 Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) to Compute Service-Aware Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
RFC 8253 Oct 2017 PCEPS: Usage of TLS to Provide a Secure Transport for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) 33 RFCs
RFC 8306 Nov 2017 Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for Point-to-Multipoint Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths 4 RFCs
RFC 8356 Mar 2018 Experimental Codepoint Allocation for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
RFC 8454 Sep 2018 Information Model for Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN) 1 RFC
RFC 8623 Jun 2019 Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE) Protocol Extensions for Usage with Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs) 3 RFCs
RFC 8637 Jul 2019 Applicability of the Path Computation Element (PCE) to the Abstraction and Control of TE Networks (ACTN) 2 RFCs
RFC 8697 Jan 2020 Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for Establishing Relationships between Sets of Label Switched Paths (LSPs) 5 RFCs
RFC 8733 Feb 2020 Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for MPLS-TE Label Switched Path (LSP) Auto-Bandwidth Adjustment with Stateful PCE
RFC 8751 Mar 2020 Hierarchical Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE) 3 RFCs
RFC 9168 Jan 2022 Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extension for Flow Specification 1 RFC
RFC 9249 Jul 2022 A YANG Data Model for NTP
RFC 9353 Jan 2023 IGP Extension for Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Security Capability Support in PCE Discovery (PCED)
RFC 9439 Aug 2023 Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Performance Cost Metrics 2 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (20)

Expired Internet-Drafts (93)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity