Curriculum Vitae

David Meyer

PERSONAL

Address:  1225 Kincaid St.
	  Eugene, OR 97403
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Email:    dmm@1-4-5.net
Email:    dmm@uoregon.edu
Email:    dmm@brocade.com
Web:	  http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm

EDUCATION
- B.S. in Biology (with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, minor concentration in statistics), June, 1981.
- M.S. in Computer and Information Science (4.0/4.0), December, 1984. Tektronix Research Fellow, 1986-1987.
INTERESTS
- Software Defined Networking/OpenFlow
- Control and Complexity Theory
- Nano-scale Networking
- Hardware Design and Fabrication Processes
- Content Centric Networking/Named Data Networking
- Programming Languages/Functional Reactive Programming/Domain Specific Programming Languages
- Inter-domain Routing
- High Performance Routing, Switching, and Optical Networking
- Routing Protocol Design and Development
- IP Business Models for Service Providers
- Instrumentation, Measurement, and Analysis of the Global Routing System
- IP Multicast Routing and Deployment
- Macro Economics
- Cosmology
- Surfing
EXPERIENCE
- CTO and Chief Scientist, Brocade Communications, (Present).
- Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems, (2001-2012).
- Director, Advanced Network Technology Center, University of Oregon (Present).
- Chair, Open Daylight Technical Steering Committee (TSC), The Open Daylight Project (Present).
- Chair, SDN Research Group , (Present).
- co-Chair, Network Complexity Research Group , (Present).
- Member, ONF Architecture and Framework Design Team, (Present).
- Member, SIGCOMM HotSDN Program Committee, (Present).
- Member, Ethernet Technology Summit Program Committee, (Present).
- Board Member, ATIS TOPS Council , (Present).
- Chair, NANOG Program Committee, (2008-2011).
- Co-chair, Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect (speermint) (IETF), (2006-2008).
- Member, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), (March 2005 - April 2007)
- IAB Liaison to the IESG, (2005/2007)
- IAB Liaison to the NOMCOM, (2005/2006)
- IAB ISOC Technical Communications Committee
- ATIS IPv6 Task Force , (2005)
- Technical Advisor, Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation (shim6) Working Group, (2005 - 2006)
- Member, The President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, Next Generation Task Force (NGNTF), (2004)
- Chair, ITU-T FGNGN WG 7 (Future Packet Bearer Networks), (July 2004 - Jan 2005)
- Director, Internet Technologies, Cisco Systems (June 2004 - June 2009)
- Director, Business Development, Cisco Systems (June 2003 - June 2004)
- Senior Scientist/Chief Technologist, Sprint (May 2001 - June 2003)
- Software Engineer, Cisco Systems (May 2000 - May 2001)
- Technical Lead, Office of the CSO, Cisco Systems (Jan 1999 - June 2000)
- Software Engineer, Cisco Systems (1998-2000)
- Member, IRTF Routing Research Working Group, (Present).
- Chair, Global Routing Operations Working Group (IETF), (2000 - 2006).
- Chair, MBONE Deployment Working Group (IETF), (1997 - 2002).
- Chair, Domain Name Server Operations (IETF), (2002 - 2005).
- Member, NANOG Program Committee, (1998 - 2005).
- Member, NANOG Program Committee, (2008 - 2010).
- Member, Operations and Management Directorate (IETF), (1998-2006).
- Member, Addressing Directorate (IETF), (2001 - 2005).
- Member, Routing Directorate (IETF), (1998 - 2007).
- Member, IESG Process and Tools (PROTO) Team , (2003 - 2006).
- Chair, MSDP Working Group (IETF), (Closed 01.14.2004).
- Chair, IP Multicast Directorate (IETF), (2000 - 2001).
- Co-Chair, Routing Policy System Working Group (IETF), (1998).
- Chair, Internet2 Multicast Working Group, (1998).
- Network Architect, State of Oregon, (1993 - 1998).
  Duties include design, engineering and operation of state-wide high speed ATM network. Projects include inter-domain routing, multicast routing, and class of service issues. Please see http://www.nero.net for additional detail.
- Architect, Oregon Exchange, (1998).
  Designed, implemented and operation of regional Internet exchange. Please see http://www.oregon-ix.net for additional details.
- Network Architect, Lane Education Network (LEN)
  Duties include design, engineering and operation of regional IP network supporting the k-20 and business communities. Please see http://www.antc.uoregon.edu/LEN for additional detail.
- Network Architect, Office of University Computing, University of Oregon, (September, 1989 - 1998).
  Duties include management and engineering of campus backbone network, and design, engineering and installation of campus wide area connectivity.
- Senior Network Engineer, Office of University Computing, University of Oregon, (September, 1989 - 1996).
  Duties include management and engineering of campus backbone network, engineering and installation on in-building networks, and Unix consulting.
- Senior Software Engineer, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon (August, 1984 - September 1985).
  Designed and implemented various network layer software. Projects included TCP/IP and ISO protocol implementations, various device drivers, and language processors.
- Consultant, TGN Consulting, (January, 1991 - June, 1995).
  Unix network programming, local, campus, and wide area network consultant.
- Instructor/Consultant, University of Oregon Continuation Center, (January, 1991 - June, 1995).
  Taught courses on Internetworking and UNIX network programming. Involved in on-site Unix and inter-networking consulting.
- Systems Programmer/Administrator, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene (September, 1983 - August, 1984).
  General systems programming and administration of departmental machines and networks.
Recent Talks
Architectural Musings on SDN, RIPE 66, Dublin, Ireland.
Architectural Musings on SDN, 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA.
OpenFlow: Today's Reality, Tomorrow's Promise. An Architectural Perspective, Ethernet Technology Summit 2013, Santa Clara, CA.
OpenFlow: Today's Reality, Tomorrow's Promise. An Architectural Perspective, Upperside SDN Summit 2013, Paris, France.
Macro Trends, Complexity, and Software Defined Networking: An Architetural Perspective, Network Complexity Research Group, IETF 86.
Seeing The Past, Present and Future: Macro Trends in Networking and the Role of Software Defined Networking, APOPS Plenary, APRICOT 2013.
Seeing The Past, Present and Future: Macro Trends in Networking and the Role of Software Defined Networking, TIP 2013.
What are the "sdn-hard" problems?, Dagstuhl Seminars: Software Defined Networking, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, September, 2012.
SDN: Fad or Phenom?, IEEE Hot Interconnects, Santa Clara, CA, August 22-23, 2012.
Complexity, Antifragility, and Integrated Theories, IRTF Network Complexity Working Group, IETF 83, Paris, France, March, 2012.
Some Musings on OpenFlow and SDN for Enterprise Networks, Open Networking Summit, October 17-19, 2011 (video here)
LISP Mobile Node, LISP Working Group, IETF 76, Hiroshima, Japan, November 8-13, 2009.
Its The End Of The World As We Know It (aka "The New Internet Architecture"), NANOG 45, January 25-28, 2009, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
LISP -- What is it, and how much is real?, AusNOG 02 Keynote, August, 2008
Workshop on the Economics of IP Addresses, Cisco Research Symposium, March, 2008
LISP Overview, Winter 2008 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop, January, 2008
Routeviews Update, Winter 2008 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop, January, 2008
LISP: A Level of Indirection for Routing, RIPE 55, October, 2007
Perfect Storms, Internet Economics, and the Future of the Internet, NANOG 41, October, 2007
Bill St. Arnaud's commentary on my NANOG 41 Perfect Storm talk
LISP-CONS: A Mapping Database Service, NANOG 41, October, 2007
Perfect Storms, Internet Economics, and the Future of the Internet, Keynote Address, Apricot 2007, Bali, Indonesia
APRICOT IAB IPv6 Multihoming BOF, APRICOT 2006, February 22 - March 03, 2006. Perth, Western Australia
IAB IPv6 Multihoming BOF, NANOG 35, October 22-23, 2005. Los Angeles, CA
What the heck is the IAB anyway?, NANOG 35, October 22-23, 2005. Los Angeles, CA
The Oregon Internet Exchange (OIX), NANOG 34, 15 May - 17 May, 2005. Seattle, WA.
Complexity and Service Provider Networks in the 21st Century, SANOG V, 06 Feb - 13 Feb, 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (and what it might mean to you) , NANOG 33, 30 Jan - 01 Feb 2005. Las Vegas, NV.
Designing for Complexity: A Few New Concepts And Their Application To Your Networks , NANOG 33, 30 Jan - 01 Feb 2005. Las Vegas, NV.
Route-Views Update, ISMA Data Catalog Workshop, 03 Jun, 2004
BGP Security, Availability, and Operator Needs , NANOG 28, 02 Jun 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The BGP TTL Security Hack (BTSH), NANOG 27, 09 Feb - 11 Feb 2003, Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302 .
Some thoughts on CoS and Backbone Networks, IEPREP Working Group, IETF 55, 18 Nov 2002.
Services, Complexity, and the Internet: What Direction? NANOG 26, 27 Oct - 29 Oct 2002. Please see http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/index.html.
What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (One Person's View of the IP Carrier Space). IEPG, Jul 2002. Please see http://www.potaroo.net/iepg/july2002.
BGP Trends and Dynamics Track, Moderator. NANOG 23, 21 Oct - 23 Oct 2001. Please see http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110.
Route Views Update. Winter ISMA 2001. Please see also http://www.caida.org/outreach/isma.
Recent Publications

Meyer RFC Overview, http://www.arkko.com/tools/allstats/davidmeyer.html.
Barkai, S., R. Katz, D. Farinacci, and D. Meyer, Software Defined Flow-Mapping for Scaling Virtualized Network Functions, SIGCOMM HotSDN 2013, Hong Kong, China.
Kumaki, K., P. Mohapatra and D. Meyer, A Virtualized Network Element Framework, draft-kumaki-vnef-00.txt.
Natal, A.R., et. al, LISP-MN: Mobile Networking through LISP, Proc. of Springer Wireless Personal Communications Journal, 2012.
Meyer, David, The LISP Protocol, The Internet Protocol Journal, Volume 11, No. 1, March, 2008.
Farinacci, D. et. al., The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), RFC 6830.
Farinacci, D. et. al, The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) for Multicast Environments, RFC 6831.
Lewis, D. et. al., Interworking between Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Non-LISP Sites, RFC 6832
Farinacci, D. and D. Meyer, The Locator/ID Separation Protocol Internet Groper (LIG), RFC 6835.
Fuller, V. et. al., The Locator/ID Separation Protocol Alternative Logical Topology (LISP+ALT), RFC 6836.
Meyer, D. et. al, LISP Mobile Node, draft-meyer-lisp-mn-07.txt.
Farinacci, D. et. al., LISP Canonical Address Format (LCAF), draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-01.txt.
Meyer, D. and D. Lewis, Architectural Implications of Locator/ID Separation, draft-meyer-loc-id-implications-02.txt.
Baker, F. and D. Meyer, Internet Protocols for the Smart Grid, RFC 6272.
Malas, D. and D. Meyer, SPEERMINT Terminology, RFC 5486.
Meyer, David, An Overview of Current IETF Activity on Routing and Addressing Models for the Internet, Cisco IP NGN Thought Leadership Journal, Winter, 2008.
Meyer, D., Update on Routing and Addressing at IETF 69, IETF Journal, Volume 3 Issue 2 (October 2007).
Gill, V., et. al., The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM), RFC 5082.
Levkowetz, H., et. al, Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication, RFC 4858.
Meyer, D. et. al., Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing, RFC 4984.
Meyer, D., and O. Kolkman, On the Formatting and Content of IETF Working Group Agendas and Minutes, ion-agenda-and-minutes.html.
McBride, M., J. Meylor, and D. Meyer, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol Deployment Scenarios, RFC 4611.

Savola, P., R. Lehtonen and D. Meyer, Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Multicast Routing Security Issues and Enhancements, RFC 4609.
Meyer, D., R. Rockell, and G. Shepherd, Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8, RFC 4608.
Meyer, D., BGP Communities for Data Collection, RFC 4384.
Meyer, D. and K. Patel, BGP-4 Protocol Analysis, RFC 4274.
Brungard, D. (editor), Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Routing for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON), RFC 4258.
Gill, V., J. Heasley and D. Meyer, The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM), RFC 3682.
Meyer, D. and B. Fenner (Editors), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) , RFC 3618.
Bonica, R., K. Kompella, and D. Meyer, Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels, RFC 3609.
Bhattacharyya, S., et. al, An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), RFC 3569.
Kim, D., D. Meyer, H. Kilmer, and D. Farinacci, Anycast Rendezvous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), RFC 3446.
Bush, R. and D. Meyer, Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy, RFC 3439.
Farinacci, D., D. Meyer, and Y. Rekhter, Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM , RFC 2337.
Meyer, D., Administratively Scoped IP Multicast , RFC 2365.
Alaettinoglu,C., T. Bates, E. Gerich, D. Karrenberg, D. Meyer, M. Terpstra, and C. Villamizar, Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) , RFC 2622.
Meyer, D., J. Schmitz, C. Orange, M. Prior, and C. Alaettinoglu, Using RPSL in Practice, RFC 2650.
Villamizar, C., C. Alaettinoglu, D. Meyer, and S. Murphy, Routing Policy System Security ,RFC 2725.
Villamizar, C., C. Alaettinoglu, R. Govindan, and D. Meyer, Routing Policy System Replication, RFC 2769.
Meyer, D. and P. Lothberg, GLOP Addressing in 233/8, RFC 2770.
Farinacci, D. T.Li, S. Hanks, D. Meyer, and P. Traina, Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), RFC 2784.
Meyer, D., Extended Allocations in 233/8, RFC 3138.
Meyer, D. and J. Scudder, Request to Move RFC1745 to Historic Status, RFC 3166.
Meyer, D. and J. Scudder, Request to Move RFC1403 to Historic Status, RFC 3167.
Albanna, Z., K. Almeroth, D. Meyer, and M. Schipper, IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Allocation , BCP 51/RFC 3171.
Meyer, D. and P. Lothberg, GLOP Addressing in 233/8, BCP 53/RFC 3180 .
Meyer, D. The PROTO Adviser, draft-ietf-proto-proto-adviser-00.txt.
Meyer, D. (Editor), Operational Concerns and Considerations for Routing Protocol Design -- Risk, Interference, and Fit (RIFT) , draft-ietf-grow-rift-01.txt (expired).
Moving Towards ATM: LAN/WAN Evolution and Experimentation at the University of Oregon , Foldvik, Randolph, and David Meyer, 20th Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks:, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 1995
ATM Network Experimentation in the State of Oregon, Foldvik, Randolph, Meyer, David, and Doug Taylor, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seattle, WA. June 1995.
Architected Failure Handling for AND-Parallel Logic Programs", David Meyer and John Conery, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Logic Programming, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990.
ACTIVE GRANTS

Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-EN: Making Internet Routing Data Accessible To All, NSF 1305218, David Meyer, PI.

The Oregon RouteViews Project, NSF 03213769, David Meyer, PI.

NetPath, DARPA Control Plane Project, UCLA, Colorado State University, and the University of Oregon. BAA04-09. See e.g. http://linkrank.cs.ucla.edu.

Internet Routing Forensics -- A Framework for Understanding, Monitoring and Detecting Abnormal BGP Events. , NSF 0520326, David Meyer, Co-PI.

Building the Next-Generation Global Routing Monitoring System, NSF CNS-0551661, UCLA, Colorado State University, and the University of Oregon. David Meyer, PI.

Last Update: 05.13.2013 by dmm@1-4-5.net

Curriculum Vitae David Meyer

PERSONAL

EDUCATION

INTERESTS

EXPERIENCE

Recent Talks

Recent Publications

ACTIVE GRANTS

Curriculum Vitae

David Meyer