Warren "Ace" Kumari

Warren Kumari currently works for Google in the Internet Evangelism group, and has been with the company since 2005. He has over 20 years of experience in the Internet industry, ranging from tiny start-up ISPs to large enterprises. Prior to serving as IETF Operations and Management Area director Warren chaired the OpSec, OpsAWG, DPRIVE, DANE and CAPPORT working groups.

Warren is also active in ICANN, serving on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), and is a consultant to USC/ISI (the operator of B-Root). He also serves as SSAC liaison to the ccNSO TLD-OPS group.

Disclosure: I am employed by Google LLC, and am a no-fee consultant to University of Southern California (USC) / Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Other than a small payment (~$500) for reviewing a book on YANG, I receive no other funding, nor have I ever been asked or felt pressured to support an employer (or other) position.

Roles

Area Director of Operations and Management Area (ops)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Technology Deep Dive (tdd)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure (opsec)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Global Routing Operations (grow)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of IPv6 Operations (v6ops)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Domain Name System Operations (dnsop)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of MBONE Deployment (mboned)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of IOT Operations (iotops)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of Operations & Management Area Open Meeting (opsarea)	warren@kumari.net
Area Director of SIDR Operations (sidrops)	warren@kumari.net
Chair of IEPG (iepg)	warren@kumari.net
Chair of Operations & Management Area Open Meeting (opsarea)	warren@kumari.net
Editor of IOT Operations (iotops)	warren@kumari.net
Liaison Manager for ICANN Technical Liaison Group (icann-tlg)	warren@kumari.net
Liaison Member of Education (edu)	warren@kumari.net
Liaison Contact of Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure (opsec)	warren@kumari.net
Tech Advisor of Media OPerationS (mops)	warren@kumari.net

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GitHub Username

wkumari

RFCs (25)

rfc5635	Aug 2009	Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc6472	Dec 2011	Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc6583	Mar 2012	Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc7304	Jul 2014	A Method for Mitigating Namespace Collisions
rfc7342	Aug 2014	Practices for Scaling ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) in Large Data Centers
rfc7344	Sep 2014	Automating DNSSEC Delegation Trust Maintenance Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc7535	May 2015	AS112 Redirection Using DNAME Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7607	Aug 2015	Codification of AS 0 Processing Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7646	Sep 2015	Definition and Use of DNSSEC Negative Trust Anchors Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7706	Nov 2015	Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7710	Dec 2015	Captive-Portal Identification Using DHCP or Router Advertisements (RAs) Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7871	May 2016	Client Subnet in DNS Queries Cited by 10 RFCs
rfc8110	Mar 2017	Opportunistic Wireless Encryption
rfc8145	Apr 2017	Signaling Trust Anchor Knowledge in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc8198	Jul 2017	Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc8244	Oct 2017	Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8509	Dec 2018	A Root Key Trust Anchor Sentinel for DNSSEC
rfc8767	Mar 2020	Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS Resiliency Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8805	Aug 2020	A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds Cited by 1 RFC
rfc8806	Jun 2020	Running a Root Server Local to a Resolver Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8886	Sep 2020	Secure Device Install
rfc8910	Sep 2020	Captive-Portal Identification in DHCP and Router Advertisements (RAs) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8914	Oct 2020	Extended DNS Errors
rfc8976	Feb 2021	Message Digest for DNS Zones
rfc9092	Jul 2021	Finding and Using Geofeed Data

Warren "Ace" Kumari

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RFCs (25)

Active Drafts (7)

Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts