Gorry Fairhurst
Professor Godred Fairhurst MIEEE
Gorry Fairhurst is a Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen, his research is in Internet Engineering. He has published more than 200 papers on topics in broadband and broadcast satellite, TV/video transmission, IPv6, IP multicast, X.25, together with work on Internet measurement, protocol architecture and Internet transport mechanisms. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he chairs the Transport Area working group (TSVWG) and contributes to the IETF Internet area. He previously chaired the IPDVB and DCCP working groups. He has authored more than 25 RFCs with over 150 citations within the RFC-series, and currently works on standards in the TSVWG, TAPS, and TCPM working groups, as well as contributing to other groups including: ICCRG, QUIC, PANRG, and MAPRG. In previous years, he contributed to ETSI standardisation and the DVB Project, working on encapsulation and Higher Layer protocols for DVB-RCS2.
Roles
| Chair of Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg) | gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk |
| Reviewer in Transport Area Review Team (tsvart) | gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk |
RFCs
| rfc3366 | Sep 2002 | Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) Cited by 12 RFCs |
| rfc3449 | Dec 2002 | TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry Cited by 16 RFCs |
| rfc3819 | Jul 2004 | Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers Cited by 52 RFCs |
| rfc3828 | Jul 2004 | The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) Cited by 24 RFCs |
| rfc4259 | Dec 2005 | A Framework for Transmission of IP Datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks Cited by 7 RFCs |
| rfc4326 | Dec 2005 | Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) for Transmission of IP Datagrams over an MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS) Cited by 5 RFCs |
| rfc4947 | Jul 2007 | Address Resolution Mechanisms for IP Datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks Cited by 3 RFCs |
| rfc5097 | Jan 2008 | MIB for the UDP-Lite protocol Cited by 3 RFCs |
| rfc5163 | Apr 2008 | Extension Formats for Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) and the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) Cited by 3 RFCs |
| rfc5405 | Nov 2008 | Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers Cited by 77 RFCs |
| rfc5595 | Sep 2009 | The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Service Codes Cited by 6 RFCs |
| rfc5596 | Sep 2009 | Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Simultaneous-Open Technique to Facilitate NAT/Middlebox Traversal Cited by 4 RFCs |
| rfc5634 | Aug 2009 | Quick-Start for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) |
| rfc5757 | Feb 2010 | Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey Cited by 4 RFCs |
| rfc6323 | Jul 2011 | Sender RTT Estimate Option for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc6773 | Nov 2012 | DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal Cited by 2 RFCs |
| rfc6936 | Apr 2013 | Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums Cited by 12 RFCs |
| rfc7280 | Jun 2014 | IANA Guidance for Managing the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) Next-Header Registry |
| rfc7411 | Nov 2014 | Multicast Listener Extensions for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Fast Handovers Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc7567 | Jul 2015 | IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management Cited by 25 RFCs |
| rfc7661 | Oct 2015 | Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic Cited by 2 RFCs |
| rfc8084 | Mar 2017 | Network Transport Circuit Breakers Cited by 8 RFCs |
| rfc8085 | Mar 2017 | UDP Usage Guidelines Cited by 15 RFCs |
| rfc8087 | Mar 2017 | The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Cited by 5 RFCs |
| rfc8095 | Mar 2017 | Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms Cited by 2 RFCs |
| rfc8304 | Feb 2018 | Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite) Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc8436 | Aug 2018 | Update to IANA Registration Procedures for Pool 3 Values in the Differentiated Services Field Codepoints (DSCP) Registry Cited by 1 RFC |
| rfc8511 | Dec 2018 | TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE) Cited by 2 RFCs |
Active Drafts
Expired Drafts excluding replaced drafts
- draft-jones-6man-historic-rfc2675
- draft-fossati-tsvwg-lola
- draft-fairhurst-udp-options-cco
- draft-trammell-taps-interface
- draft-pauly-taps-arch
- draft-fairhurst-taps-neat
- draft-khademi-tsvwg-ecn-response
- draft-fairhurst-tsvwg-buffers
- draft-schmidt-multimob-fmipv6-pfmipv6-multicast
- draft-fairhurst-6man-tsvwg-udptt
- draft-fairhurst-ipdvb-s2-gule
- draft-fair-ipdvb-ar
- draft-fair-ipdvb-req
- draft-collini-ipdvb-xule
- draft-fair-ipdvb-ule