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) |
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