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François Le Faucheur
(Francois Le Faucheur)

Francois is now involved in a MedTech start-up.

Francois worked 20 years at Cisco Systems where he was promoted to Distinguished Engineer. He worked as a Systems Architect in the Video Software and Services group, in charge of developing software and services for Service Providers that support advanced video services. He focuses on next generation video and content distribution solutions, including rich IP video experience delivered from the cloud.

Francois is also driving technology around CDN Interconnection and CDN Federation. Francois co-chairs the "CDN Interconnection (CDNI)" Working Group in the IETF. He lead the "CDN Federation Pilot" initiative involving Cisco, Service Providers, over-the-top CDN operators and Media Providers worldwide.

Before, Francois had been working on Quality of Service and MPLS. Francois has been very active in the IETF for many years on topics including CDNI, MPLS, Quality of Service, IPv6 over MPLS, and RSVP.

Francois holds 26 patents and co-authored a book on MPLS Designs.

He started his career working for service providers in France (Orange) and Australia (Telstra).

RFCs (26)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 2836 May 2000 Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes 5 RFCs
RFC 3140 Jun 2001 Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes 12 RFCs
RFC 3175 Sep 2001 Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations 20 RFCs
RFC 3270 May 2002 Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services 47 RFCs
RFC 3564 Jul 2003 Requirements for Support of Differentiated Services-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering 14 RFCs
RFC 3785 May 2004 Use of Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Metric as a second MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric 4 RFCs
RFC 4124 Jun 2005 Protocol Extensions for Support of Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering 18 RFCs
RFC 4125 Jun 2005 Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering 10 RFCs
RFC 4127 Jun 2005 Russian Dolls Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering 11 RFCs
RFC 4659 Sep 2006 BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN 18 RFCs
RFC 4798 Feb 2007 Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE) 14 RFCs
RFC 4804 Feb 2007 Aggregation of Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels 4 RFCs
RFC 4860 May 2007 Generic Aggregate Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Reservations 7 RFCs
RFC 5549 May 2009 Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop 8 RFCs
RFC 5945 Oct 2010 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Proxy Approaches 2 RFCs
RFC 5946 Oct 2010 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Extensions for Path-Triggered RSVP Receiver Proxy 1 RFC
RFC 6016 Oct 2010 Support for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) in Layer 3 VPNs 2 RFCs
RFC 6398 Oct 2011 IP Router Alert Considerations and Usage 8 RFCs
RFC 6401 Oct 2011 RSVP Extensions for Admission Priority 4 RFCs
RFC 6411 Oct 2011 Applicability of Keying Methods for RSVP Security 2 RFCs
RFC 6707 Sep 2012 Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Problem Statement 15 RFCs
RFC 6780 Oct 2012 RSVP ASSOCIATION Object Extensions 5 RFCs
RFC 6983 Jul 2013 Models for HTTP-Adaptive-Streaming-Aware Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) 3 RFCs
RFC 7256 Jul 2014 Multicast Control Extensions for the Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP)
RFC 7436 Jan 2015 IP-Only LAN Service (IPLS) 1 RFC
RFC 7937 Aug 2016 Content Distribution Network Interconnection (CDNI) Logging Interface 2 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (0)

François has no active Internet-Drafts as of 2024-03-28.

Expired Internet-Drafts (46)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity