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 50 RFCs
rfc5566	Jun 2009	BGP IPsec Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc5709	Oct 2009	OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication Cited by 15 RFCs
rfc6039	Oct 2010	Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols Cited by 12 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)
rfc7980	Oct 2016	A Framework for Defining Network Complexity

Russ White

Roles

RFCs (14)

Active Drafts (4)

Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts