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Ketan Talaulikar

Ketan Talaulikar is a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, specializing in IP/MPLS routing protocols and technologies. As a developer in Cisco's Common Routing Protocols team, he is currently focused on the development and delivery of routing solutions and working on their standardization aspects at the IETF.

Ketan has extensive experience in developing IP/MPLS routing systems from enterprise branch routers to large-scale service provider routing platforms, having worked with vendors such as Cisco, Nortel, Avici, and Alcatel. His expertise includes IP/MPLS unicast and multicast routing protocols and technologies such as Segment Routing and Traffic Engineering.

Ketan has contributed to the IETF for over a decade in various working groups in the routing area, authoring and contributing to several specifications. He has also served as a routing directorate reviewer, a Nomcom member, and co-chair of the LSVR working group.

Originally from India, Ketan spent several years working in the US and EU before returning to plant his roots in Pune, India.

Roles

Role Group Email
Area Director Routing Area (rtg) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (bfd) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Deterministic Networking (detnet) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Inter-Domain Routing (idr) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Path Computation Element (pce) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (roll) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director BGP Directorate (bgpdir) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Open Source at IETF Team (opensource) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Area Director Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Chair Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Chair Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) ketant.ietf@gmail.com
Chair BGP Directorate (bgpdir) ketant.ietf@gmail.com

RFCs (24)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 8510 Jan 2019 OSPF Link-Local Signaling (LLS) Extensions for Local Interface ID Advertisement 1 RFC
RFC 8814 Aug 2020 Signaling Maximum SID Depth (MSD) Using the Border Gateway Protocol - Link State 10 RFCs
RFC 9084 Aug 2021 OSPF Prefix Originator Extensions 2 RFCs
RFC 9085 Aug 2021 Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing 11 RFCs
RFC 9086 Aug 2021 Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering 10 RFCs
RFC 9104 Aug 2021 Distribution of Traffic Engineering Extended Administrative Groups Using the Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) 1 RFC
RFC 9247 Jun 2022 BGP - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD)
RFC 9252 Jul 2022 BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) 8 RFCs
RFC 9256 Jul 2022 Segment Routing Policy Architecture 36 RFCs
RFC 9294 Aug 2022 Application-Specific Link Attributes Advertisement Using the Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) 1 RFC
RFC 9339 Dec 2022 OSPF Reverse Metric
RFC 9350 Feb 2023 IGP Flexible Algorithm 18 RFCs
RFC 9351 Feb 2023 Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Flexible Algorithm Advertisement
RFC 9355 Feb 2023 OSPF Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Strict-Mode
RFC 9356 Jan 2023 Advertising Layer 2 Bundle Member Link Attributes in OSPF 2 RFCs
RFC 9513 Dec 2023 OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) 6 RFCs
RFC 9514 Dec 2023 Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) 6 RFCs
RFC 9552 Dec 2023 Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP 13 RFCs
RFC 9723 May 2025 BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) 1 RFC
RFC 9792 Jun 2025 Prefix Flag Extension for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 1 RFC
RFC 9819 Jul 2025 Argument Signaling for BGP Services in Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
RFC 9830 Sep 2025 Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP 7 RFCs
RFC 9831 Sep 2025 Segment Type Extensions for BGP Segment Routing (SR) Policy 3 RFCs
RFC 9857 Oct 2025 Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies Using BGP - Link State 4 RFCs

Active Internet-Drafts (12)

Expired Internet-Drafts (51)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity