Warren "Ace" Kumari
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Warren "Ace" Kumari

Warren Kumari currently works for Google in the Internet Evangelism group, and has been with the company since 2005. He has over 20 years of experience in the Internet industry, ranging from tiny start-up ISPs to large enterprises. Prior to serving as IETF Operations and Management Area director Warren chaired the OpSec, OpsAWG, DPRIVE, DANE and CAPPORT working groups.

Warren is also active in ICANN, serving on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), and is a consultant to USC/ISI (the operator of B-Root). He also serves as SSAC liaison to the ccNSO TLD-OPS group.

Disclosure: I am employed by Google LLC, and am a no-fee consultant to University of Southern California (USC) / Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Other than a small payment (~$500) for reviewing a book on YANG, I receive no other funding, nor have I ever been asked or felt pressured to support an employer (or other) position.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director IP Performance Measurement (ippm) warren@kumari.net
Area Director DNS Delegation (deleg) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Operations & Management Area Open Meeting (opsarea) warren@kumari.net
Area Director IOT Operations (iotops) warren@kumari.net
Area Director MBONE Deployment (mboned) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Domain Name System Operations (dnsop) warren@kumari.net
Area Director IPv6 Operations (v6ops) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Global Routing Operations (grow) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) warren@kumari.net
Area Director DNS Directorate (dnsdir) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Operations and Management Area (ops) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Technology Deep Dive (tdd) warren@kumari.net
Area Director SIDR Operations (sidrops) warren@kumari.net
Area Director Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg) warren@kumari.net
Chair Operations & Management Area Open Meeting (opsarea) warren@kumari.net
Chair IAB workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (nemopsws) warren@kumari.net
Chair Technology Deep Dive (tdd) warren@kumari.net
Chair IEPG - Internet Engineering and Planning Group (iepg) warren@kumari.net
Delegate Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg) warren@kumari.net
Delegate IPv6 Operations (v6ops) warren@kumari.net
Delegate SIDR Operations (sidrops) warren@kumari.net
Editor IOT Operations (iotops) warren@kumari.net
Liaison Manager ICANN Technical Liaison Group (icann-tlg) warren@kumari.net
Liaison Manager ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6 (iso-iec-jtc1-sc6) warren@kumari.net
Liaison Member The Tools Team (tools) warren@kumari.net
Member IAB-ISOC Policy Coordination (iabisoc) warren@kumari.net
Tech Advisor Media OPerationS (mops) warren@kumari.net

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username wkumari

RFCs (31)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 5635 Aug 2009 Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) 5 RFCs
RFC 6472 Dec 2011 Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP 6 RFCs
RFC 6583 Mar 2012 Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems 13 RFCs
RFC 7304 Jul 2014 A Method for Mitigating Namespace Collisions
RFC 7342 Aug 2014 Practices for Scaling ARP and Neighbor Discovery (ND) in Large Data Centers
RFC 7344 Sep 2014 Automating DNSSEC Delegation Trust Maintenance 7 RFCs
RFC 7535 May 2015 AS112 Redirection Using DNAME 1 RFC
RFC 7607 Aug 2015 Codification of AS 0 Processing 2 RFCs
RFC 7646 Sep 2015 Definition and Use of DNSSEC Negative Trust Anchors 2 RFCs
RFC 7706 Nov 2015 Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback 2 RFCs
RFC 7710 Dec 2015 Captive-Portal Identification Using DHCP or Router Advertisements (RAs) 1 RFC
RFC 7871 May 2016 Client Subnet in DNS Queries 12 RFCs
RFC 8110 Mar 2017 Opportunistic Wireless Encryption
RFC 8145 Apr 2017 Signaling Trust Anchor Knowledge in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) 4 RFCs
RFC 8198 Jul 2017 Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache 10 RFCs
RFC 8244 Oct 2017 Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement 4 RFCs
RFC 8509 Dec 2018 A Root Key Trust Anchor Sentinel for DNSSEC 1 RFC
RFC 8767 Mar 2020 Serving Stale Data to Improve DNS Resiliency 1 RFC
RFC 8805 Aug 2020 A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds 1 RFC
RFC 8806 Jun 2020 Running a Root Server Local to a Resolver 4 RFCs
RFC 8886 Sep 2020 Secure Device Install
RFC 8910 Sep 2020 Captive-Portal Identification in DHCP and Router Advertisements (RAs) 2 RFCs
RFC 8914 Oct 2020 Extended DNS Errors 4 RFCs
RFC 8976 Feb 2021 Message Digest for DNS Zones 1 RFC
RFC 9092 Jul 2021 Finding and Using Geofeed Data
RFC 9098 Sep 2021 Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension Headers 3 RFCs
RFC 9119 Oct 2021 Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless Media 7 RFCs
RFC 9476 Sep 2023 The .alt Special-Use Top-Level Domain 1 RFC
RFC 9632 Aug 2024 Finding and Using Geofeed Data
RFC 9672 Dec 2024 Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group
RFC 9686 Dec 2024 Registering Self-Generated IPv6 Addresses Using DHCPv6

Active Internet-Drafts (8)

Expired Internet-Drafts (60)

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