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Charles Eckel
Pronouns: he/him

Charles is a recognized champion of open source, standards, and interoperability. As a member of Cisco's Global Technology Standards team, Charles identifies and guides open source efforts related to key standards initiatives. In IETF, he started and co-chairs IETF Hackathons, advancing the pace and relevance of Internet standards by combining the speed and collaborative spirit of open source communities with the rigor and precision of standards organizations. He also serves as IETF liaison manager to 3GPP, helping the organizations collaborate effectively. Within 3GPP, Charles is active in SA3 (Security) and attends the SA plenaries. In Mplify, Charles co-chair’s the Test and Certification Committee. Charles is also involved in open source projects in the Linux Foundation, a frequent speaker at conferences, and a manager of the Network devroom at FOSDEM. His focus areas include application networking and security, particularly where there is a need for new standards and closely associated open source projects.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director Open Source at IETF Team (opensource) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Applications and Real-Time Area (art) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director A Semantic Definition Format for Data and Interactions of Things (asdf) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission (cellar) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Digital Emblems (diem) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies (ecrit) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director More Instant Messaging Interoperability (mimi) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Machine Learning for Audio Coding (mlcodec) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director RESTful Provisioning Protocol (rpp) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (stir) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Session Initiation Protocol Core (sipcore) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Virtualized Conversations (vcon) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Workload Identity in Multi System Environments (wimse) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director ART Area Review Team (artart) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director SDP Directorate (sdpdir) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Applications and Real-Time Area Open Meeting (artarea) eckelcu@cisco.com
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) eckelcu@cisco.com
Chair ART Area Review Team (artart) eckelcu@cisco.com
Chair Applications and Real-Time Area Open Meeting (artarea) eckelcu@cisco.com
Chair Hackathon (hackathon) eckelcu@cisco.com
Delegate IETF-3GPP (ietf3gpp) eckelcu@cisco.com
Lead IETF-3GPP (ietf3gpp) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG RAN WG4 (3gpp-tsg-ran-wg4) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG SA (3gpp-tsg-sa) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG SA WG5 (3gpp-tsg-sa-wg5) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG CT WG1 (3gpp-tsg-ct-wg1) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG CT WG3 (3gpp-tsg-ct-wg3) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG CT WG4 (3gpp-tsg-ct-wg4) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG RAN (3gpp-tsg-ran) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG RAN WG2 (3gpp-tsg-ran-wg2) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG SA WG2 (3gpp-tsg-sa-wg2) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG SA WG3 (3gpp-tsg-sa-wg3) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG T WG2 (3gpp-tsg-t-wg2) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG SA WG4 (3gpp-tsg-sa-wg4) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG RAN WG3 (3gpp-tsg-ran-wg3) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP (3gpp) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG CT (3gpp-tsg-ct) eckelcu@cisco.com
Liaison Manager 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 (3gpp-tsg-ran-wg1) eckelcu@cisco.com

RFCs (3)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 7866 May 2016 Session Recording Protocol 4 RFCs
RFC 8855 Jan 2021 The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) 4 RFCs
RFC 9311 Sep 2022 Running an IETF Hackathon 1 RFC

Active Internet-Drafts (1)

Expired Internet-Drafts (12)

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