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- Yakov Rekhter
- yakov@watson.ibm.com
- Position Candidate
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- Dr. Yakov Rekhter
- Manager High Performance Networking, Research Staff Member
- T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corp.
- P.O. Box 218,
- Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
- Phone: +1 914 945 3896
- Fax: +1 914 945 2141
- Email: yakov@watson.ibm.com
- Internet Society #: 1316065
- Expiration Date: Jan 94
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- Qualification/Background
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- Dr. Yakov Rekhter has been with IBM since 1984, and is currently a Research Staff Member and a manager
- of High-Performance Networking group at T.J. Watson Research Center.
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- Dr. Rekhter is one of the leading architects, as well as the major software developer, of the NSFNET
- Backbone Phase II. His contributions to the NSFNET project include areas of routing, network
- management, and network topology design.
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- He is one of the leading designers of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He is also one of the leading
- designers of the Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (IDRP).
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- His work in IBM with the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the NSFNET project brought him three IBM
- Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in 1986, in 1990, and in 1991.
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- Present activities include work on Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), work on the Unified Approach to
- Inter-Domain Routing (under the contract with the National Science Foundation), work on supporting
- transparent host mobility in connectionless network layer protocols (transport layer transparency), and work
- on supporting IP over Fibre Channel subnetworks.
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- Dr. Rekhter actively participates in many activities of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Currently he is
- a chairman of the BGP Working Group. He is also an active participant in the ANSI X3S3.3 committee.
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- He is an author/co-author of twelve RFCs and several journal publications on the subject of networking
- technologies.
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