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)
rfc3449	Dec 2002	TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry
rfc3819	Jul 2004	Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
rfc3828	Jul 2004	The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite)
rfc4259	Dec 2005	A Framework for Transmission of IP Datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks
rfc4326	Dec 2005	Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) for Transmission of IP Datagrams over an MPEG-2 Transport Stream (TS)
rfc4947	Jul 2007	Address Resolution Mechanisms for IP Datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks
rfc5097	Jan 2008	MIB for the UDP-Lite protocol
rfc5163	Apr 2008	Extension Formats for Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) and the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE)
rfc5405	Nov 2008	Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
rfc5595	Sep 2009	The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Service Codes
rfc5596	Sep 2009	Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Simultaneous-Open Technique to Facilitate NAT/Middlebox Traversal
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
rfc6323	Jul 2011	Sender RTT Estimate Option for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
rfc6773	Nov 2012	DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal
rfc6936	Apr 2013	Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
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
rfc7567	Jul 2015	IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
rfc7661	Oct 2015	Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
rfc8084	Mar 2017	Network Transport Circuit Breakers
rfc8085	Mar 2017	UDP Usage Guidelines
rfc8087	Mar 2017	The Benefits of Using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
rfc8095	Mar 2017	Services Provided by IETF Transport Protocols and Congestion Control Mechanisms
rfc8304	Feb 2018	Transport Features of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Lightweight UDP (UDP-Lite)
rfc8436	Aug 2018	Update to IANA Registration Procedures for Pool 3 Values in the Differentiated Services Field Codepoints (DSCP) Registry
rfc8511	Dec 2018	TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)

Gorry Fairhurst

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