Nick Buraglio
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Nick Buraglio

Nick has been involved in networking since 1997, primarily focused on service provider networking and large scale, high performance networking. Nick has been employed by regional Internet Service Providers, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), The University of Illinois, and he has been contracted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a cybersecurity consultant and instructor. From 2003 to 2023, he held various roles designing and building the International Supercomputing Conference network (SCinet). Nick has worked extensively with emerging and disruptive technologies, protocol and hardware interoperability, and has been active in the IPv6 community in one form or another since 2002. Nick works as part of the Energy Sciences Network Planning and Architecture group. He leads the implementation and community of practice for the IPv6-only mandate at the US Department of Energy, and actively participates in the USG IPv6-only task force. His areas of focus are large scale network architecture, traffic engineering, QoS, and IPv6.

His areas of focus are large scale network architecture, traffic engineering, QoS, and IPv6.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair IPv6 Operations (v6ops) buraglio@forwardingplane.net
Reviewer (See reviews) Ops Directorate (opsdir) buraglio@forwardingplane.net

External Resources

Name Value
GitHub Username https://www.github.com/buraglio/
Additional Web Page https://www.forwardingplane.net
Additional Web Page https://www.ipv6.army

RFCs (3)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 9637 Aug 2024 Expanding the IPv6 Documentation Space 1 RFC
RFC 9872 Sep 2025 Recommendations for Discovering IPv6 Prefix Used for IPv6 Address Synthesis
RFC 9898 Nov 2025 Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments 1 RFC

Active Internet-Drafts (4)

Expired Internet-Drafts (18)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity