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Jim Guichard

Jim Guichard is a Senior Distinguished Engineer and Technical Vice President for IP protocol innovation and standardization at Futurewei. He is an experienced network protocol architect with 25+ years of industry experience and is widely respected for this extensive technical expertise in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), IP routing, L3VPN’s, Segment Routing, and Service Chaining. He is the inventor of 200+ US & International patents, author of several books including “MPLS & VPN Architectures, volumes I & II” and “Definitive MPLS Network Designs” and has been a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (#2069) since early 1996. He has previously held chair positions in the SFC and SPRING working groups.

Jim has previously held senior technical roles at IBM, Cisco, and Juniper Networks before joining Futurewei. In his personal time Jim enjoys running a small farm (with horses, goats, and his favorite donkey Eve), hiking, watching English football, and spending time with his family. He is based in Hollis, New Hampshire, USA.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director SRv6 Operations (srv6ops) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (manet) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Source Packet Routing in Networking (spring) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Routing Area (rtg) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (cats) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Routing In Fat Trees (rift) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Source Address Validation in Intra-domain and Inter-domain Networks (savnet) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Area Director Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling (teas) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com
Chair Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) james.n.guichard@futurewei.com

RFCs (3)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 4684 Nov 2006 Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 17 RFCs
RFC 9491 Nov 2023 Integration of the Network Service Header (NSH) and Segment Routing for Service Function Chaining (SFC)
RFC 9617 Aug 2024 A YANG Data Model for In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM)

Active Internet-Drafts (2)

Expired Internet-Drafts (50)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity