Dave Thaler
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Dave Thaler

Dave Thaler recently retired from Microsoft and is now an independent consultant. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, he was a routing developer at Merit Network. Since then, he was responsible for multicast, IPv6, and network diagnostics, within Windows Networking, and also led the TCP/IP team during the design of the new TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. Dave has been active in the IETF since 1994 and has authored over 55 RFCs, covering IPv6, multicast, MIBs, etc. He previously served as co-chair of the MALLOC, BEHAVE, PCP, SUIT, and TEEP WGs. Dave holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Website: http://research.microsoft.com/users/dthaler

Roles

Role Group Email
Member The Tools Team (tools) dave.thaler.ietf@gmail.com
Reviewer Internet Area Directorate (intdir) dave.thaler.ietf@gmail.com
Reviewer Internet of Things Directorate (iotdir) dave.thaler.ietf@gmail.com
Reviewer Security Area Directorate (secdir) dave.thaler.ietf@gmail.com
Tech Advisor BPF/eBPF (bpf) dave.thaler.ietf@gmail.com

RFCs (56)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 2117 Jun 1997 Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification 5 RFCs
RFC 2362 Jun 1998 Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification 27 RFCs
RFC 2667 Aug 1999 IP Tunnel MIB 7 RFCs
RFC 2715 Oct 1999 Interoperability Rules for Multicast Routing Protocols 4 RFCs
RFC 2776 Feb 2000 Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP) 8 RFCs
RFC 2908 Sep 2000 The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture 8 RFCs
RFC 2909 Sep 2000 The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol 7 RFCs
RFC 2932 Oct 2000 IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB 7 RFCs
RFC 2933 Oct 2000 Internet Group Management Protocol MIB 2 RFCs
RFC 2934 Oct 2000 Protocol Independent Multicast MIB for IPv4 3 RFCs
RFC 2991 Nov 2000 Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection 17 RFCs
RFC 3306 Sep 2002 Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses 26 RFCs
RFC 3559 Jun 2003 Multicast Address Allocation MIB
RFC 3678 Jan 2004 Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters 11 RFCs
RFC 3913 Sep 2004 Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification 3 RFCs
RFC 4087 Jun 2005 IP Tunnel MIB 8 RFCs
RFC 4191 Nov 2005 Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes 39 RFCs
RFC 4214 Oct 2005 Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) 5 RFCs
RFC 4311 Nov 2005 IPv6 Host-to-Router Load Sharing 6 RFCs
RFC 4389 Apr 2006 Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy) 21 RFCs
RFC 4624 Oct 2006 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) MIB
RFC 4795 Jan 2007 Link-local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) 14 RFCs
RFC 4840 Apr 2007 Multiple Encapsulation Methods Considered Harmful 3 RFCs
RFC 4846 Jul 2007 Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor 10 RFCs
RFC 4903 Jun 2007 Multi-Link Subnet Issues 14 RFCs
RFC 5132 Dec 2007 IP Multicast MIB 5 RFCs
RFC 5214 Mar 2008 Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) 29 RFCs
RFC 5218 Jul 2008 What Makes for a Successful Protocol? 15 RFCs
RFC 5505 May 2009 Principles of Internet Host Configuration 2 RFCs
RFC 5902 Jul 2010 IAB Thoughts on IPv6 Network Address Translation 5 RFCs
RFC 5970 Sep 2010 DHCPv6 Options for Network Boot 4 RFCs
RFC 5991 Sep 2010 Teredo Security Updates 3 RFCs
RFC 6034 Oct 2010 Unicast-Prefix-Based IPv4 Multicast Addresses 3 RFCs
RFC 6055 Feb 2011 IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names 10 RFCs
RFC 6081 Jan 2011 Teredo Extensions 3 RFCs
RFC 6169 Apr 2011 Security Concerns with IP Tunneling 14 RFCs
RFC 6250 May 2011 Evolution of the IP Model 6 RFCs
RFC 6724 Sep 2012 Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) 52 RFCs
RFC 6912 Apr 2013 Principles for Unicode Code Point Inclusion in Labels in the DNS 3 RFCs
RFC 6943 May 2013 Issues in Identifier Comparison for Security Purposes 11 RFCs
RFC 7094 Jan 2014 Architectural Considerations of IP Anycast 7 RFCs
RFC 7288 Jun 2014 Reflections on Host Firewalls 4 RFCs
RFC 7452 Mar 2015 Architectural Considerations in Smart Object Networking 7 RFCs
RFC 7559 May 2015 Packet-Loss Resiliency for Router Solicitations 2 RFCs
RFC 7595 Jun 2015 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes 12 RFCs
RFC 7721 Mar 2016 Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms 25 RFCs
RFC 7754 Mar 2016 Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering 8 RFCs
RFC 8064 Feb 2017 Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers 15 RFCs
RFC 8065 Feb 2017 Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Adaptation-Layer Mechanisms 11 RFCs
RFC 8117 Mar 2017 Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful 3 RFCs
RFC 8170 May 2017 Planning for Protocol Adoption and Subsequent Transitions 5 RFCs
RFC 8257 Oct 2017 Data Center TCP (DCTCP): TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers 6 RFCs
RFC 8477 Oct 2018 Report from the Internet of Things (IoT) Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) Workshop 2016
RFC 8892 Aug 2020 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for Interface Types and Tunnel Types 1 RFC
RFC 9334 Jan 2023 Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) Architecture 2 RFCs
RFC 9397 Jul 2023 Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning (TEEP) Architecture 1 RFC

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