Russ White
russ [at] riw [dot] us

Summary of Qualifications

Knowledge
Education & Certification

Networking Technologies

General Computers & Electronics

Positions Held
Cisco Systems (1996 to present)

Technical Accomplishments

CCDE Quick Reference, Co-author, ISBN 1-58705-839-1

Cisco Express Forwarding, Co-author, ISBN 978-1587052361

Optimal Routing Design, Co-author, ISBN 1587051877

Practical BGP, Co-author, ISBN 0-321-12700-5

Advanced IP Network Design, Co-author, ISBN 1578700973

Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture, Co-author, ISBN 1578701813

IS-IS: Deployment in IP Networks, Co-Author, ISBN 0201657724

EIGRP for IP Networks, Co-author, ISBN 0201657732

EIGRP Network Design Solutions, Technical Reviewer, ISBN 1578701651

EIGRP Efficiency, Packet Magazine, First Quarter 2006

Working with IP Addresses, Internet Protocol Journal, March 2006

Caveats in Testing Routing Protocol Convergence, Internet Protocol Journal, December 2005

Negative Testing In IP Networks, Business Communications Review, October 2005

Who's Afraid of DUAL-3-SIA? Packet Magazine, Second Quarter 2005

Graph Overlays on Path Vector: A Possible Next Step in BGP, IPJ, Jn 2005

High Availability In Routing, Business Communications Review, May 2004

High Availability In Routing, Internet Protocol Journal, March 2004

Securing BGP Through Secure Origin BGP, Internet Protocol Journal, September 2003

Securing BGP Through Secure Origin BGP (soBGP), Business Communications Review, May 2003

EIGRP White Paper (original author), Cisco Online, 2000

Routing TCP/IP, Provided material for author (see Thanks section), ISBN 1578700418

RFC3137: OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

RFC3021: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links

RFC4061: Benchmarking Basic OSPF Single Router Control Plane Convergence

RFC4062: OSPF Benchmarking Terminology and Concepts

RFC4063: Considerations When Using Basic OSPF Convergence Benchmarks

RFC4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4, Acknowledgements

RFC5123: Considerations in Validating the Path in BGP

RFC5310: IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication

RFC5566: IPsec Encap for Softwires

RFC5709: OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic Authentication
US Patent 7,515,551: Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing protocol
US Patent 7,391,730: System and method for synchronizing link state databases in a network environment
US Patent 7,363,387: System and method for reducing information being transmitted in a network environment
US Patent 7,525,949: Forwarding for Network Devices

US Patent 7,319,674: Exchanging Awareness Information in a Network Environment

US Patent 7,298,707: Controlling the Flooding of Information in a Network Environment

US Patent 7,333,501: Determining Network Nodes to Represent Multiple Subnetworks

US Patent 7,623,474: Techniques for distributing information using multicast subsets
US Patent 7,626,948: System and method for verifying the validity of a path in a network environment
US Patent 7,561,588: Processing two-octet and four-octet values using border gateway protocol
US Patent 7,609,672: Method and apparatus for automatic sub-division of areas that flood routing information
US Patent 7,672,253: Border router with selective filtering of link state advertisements
US Patent 7,668,119: Ad hoc network formation and management

US Patent 7,697,505: Technique for decreasing queries to discover routes in an IGP

US Patent 7,733,798: Evaluation of network data aggregation

Personal Accomplishments and Other Experience

IETF Routing Protocol Security Working Group, Co-chair, 2004-2008

2008/9 Nominating Committee, Internet Engineering Task Force

2004/5 Nominating Committee, Internet Engineering Task Force

2002/3 Nominating Committee, Internet Engineering Task Force

Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, Troop 412 (Atlanta Area Council), 1982

Amateur Radio Operator, WB4YRV, 1976

Capella University IT Advisory Council, 2007-2008 , 2010