Russ White
russ [at] riw [dot] us

Detailed 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
RFC6039: Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols
US Patent 7,298,707: Controlling the Flooding of Information in a Network Environment
US Patent 7,319,674: Exchanging Awareness Information in a Network Environment
US Patent 7,333,501: Determining Network Nodes to Represent Multiple Subnetworks
US Patent 7,363,387: System and method for reducing information being transmitted in a network environment
US Patent 7,391,730: System and method for synchronizing link state databases in a network environment
US Patent 7,515,551: Techniques for reducing adjacencies in a link-state network routing protocol
US Patent 7,525,949: Forwarding for Network Devices
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 7,623,474: 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 7,668,119: Ad hoc network formation and management
US Patent 7,672,253: Border router with selective filtering of link state advertisements
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
US Patent 7,768,995: Techniques for one-way synchronization of routing information among intermediate nodes
US Patent 7,778,235: Compression of a routing header in a packet by a mobile router in an ad hoc network
US Patent 7,782,858: Validating internal routing protocol information passed through an external routing protocol
US Patent 7,796,537: Creating non-transit nodes in a link state network
US Patent 7,808,927: Automatically deaggregating an optimum set to prevent suboptimal routing
US Patent 7,821,956: System and method for controlling the flooding of information in a network environment
US Patent 7,821,970: Protection of transit links in a network
US Patent 7,860,027: Extending an IP everywhere network over a plurality of flooding domains
US Patent 7,889,655: Techniques for detecting loop-free paths that cross routing information boundaries
US Patent 7,924,726: Arrangement for preventing count-to-infinity in flooding distance vector routing protocols
US Patent 7,936,667: Building backup tunnels for fast reroute in communications networks
US Patent 7,940,668: Method and apparatus to enable an IPe domarin through EIGRP
US Patent 7,940,776: Fast Re-routing in Distance Vector Routing Protocol Networks
US Patent 7,978,612: Two-hop Relay for Reducing Distance Vector Routing Information
US Patent 8,009,591: Automatic overlapping areas that flood routing information
US Patent 8,072,908: Partitioned forwarding of packets originated on a broadcast link

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, 2007-2011