Russ White

Russ White has more than twenty years' experience in designing, deploying, breaking, and troubleshooting large scale networks. Across that time, he has co-authored more than forty software patents, spoken at venues throughout the world, participated in the development of several internet standards, helped develop the CCDE and the CCAr, and worked in Internet governance with the Internet Society. Russ is currently a member of the Architecture Team at LinkedIn, where he works on next generation data center designs, complexity, security, and privacy. He is also currently on the Routing Area Directorate at the IETF, and co-chairs the IETF I2RS and BABEL working groups. His most recent works are The Art of Network Architecture, Navigating Network Complexity, Unintended Features, and the Intermediate System to Intermediate System LiveLesson.
MSIT Capella University, MACM Shepherds Theological Seminary, PhD in progress from Southeastern Theological Seminary CCIE #2635, CCDE 2007::1, CCAr
Roles
Chair of Interface to the Routing System (i2rs) | russ@riw.us |
Chair of Babel routing protocol (babel) | russ@riw.us |
Reviewer in Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) | russ@riw.us |
RFCs (14)
rfc3021 | Dec 2000 | Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links Cited by 6 RFCs |
rfc3137 | Jun 2001 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement Cited by 7 RFCs |
rfc4061 | Apr 2005 | Benchmarking Basic OSPF Single Router Control Plane Convergence Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc4062 | Apr 2005 | OSPF Benchmarking Terminology and Concepts Cited by 3 RFCs |
rfc4063 | Apr 2005 | Considerations When Using Basic OSPF Convergence Benchmarks Cited by 2 RFCs |
rfc5123 | Feb 2008 | Considerations in Validating the Path in BGP Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc5310 | Feb 2009 | IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication Cited by 51 RFCs |
rfc5566 | Jun 2009 | BGP IPsec Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute Cited by 4 RFCs |
rfc5709 | Oct 2009 | OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication Cited by 16 RFCs |
rfc6039 | Oct 2010 | Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols Cited by 13 RFCs |
rfc6907 | Mar 2013 | Use Cases and Interpretations of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Objects for Issuers and Relying Parties |
rfc6987 | Sep 2013 | OSPF Stub Router Advertisement Cited by 8 RFCs |
rfc7868 | May 2016 | Cisco's Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Cited by 1 RFC |
rfc7980 | Oct 2016 | A Framework for Defining Network Complexity |
Active Drafts (5)
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-white-linklocalnh
- draft-chunduri-lsr-ospf-preferred-path-routing
- draft-zhang-bess-label-sharing
- draft-chunduri-ospf-lsr-preferred-path-routing
- draft-chunduri-isis-preferred-path-routing
- draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6rtr-reqs
- draft-dt-rtgwg-dcrouting-requirements
- draft-ietf-i2rs-fb-rib-data-model
- draft-ietf-i2rs-pkt-eca-data-model
- draft-ietf-idr-custom-decision
- draft-ietf-i2rs-fb-rib-info-model
- draft-raszuk-idr-bgp-pr
- draft-hares-rtgwg-fb-rib
- draft-white-grow-overlapping-routes
- draft-keyupate-idr-i2rs-bgp-usecases
- draft-arkko-ietf-trends-and-observations
- draft-mwnpkazcap-rtgwg-common-oam
- draft-kini-i2rs-fb-fib-info-model
- draft-wang-i2rs-yang-sff-dm
- draft-hares-i2rs-bnp-info-model
- draft-chen-i2rs-mpls-te-info-model
- draft-chen-i2rs-mpls-ldp-info-model
- draft-retana-rtgwg-eacp
- draft-keyupate-i2rs-bgp-usecases
- draft-white-i2rs-use-case
- draft-white-bgpbgp
- draft-zhang-l3vpn-label-sharing
- draft-zhang-trill-active-active-cp-req
- draft-white-irs-use-case
- draft-marques-idr-aggregate
- draft-ward-l2isis
- draft-white-rppract
- draft-berger-idr-encaps-ipsec
- draft-berger-l3vpn-ip-tunnels
- draft-white-sobgp-architecture
- draft-white-network-benchmark
- draft-white-sobgparchitecture
- draft-white-sobgp-bgp-deployment
- draft-grow-bounded-longest-match
- draft-manral-ospconv-intraarea
- draft-manral-ospfconv-term