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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Area Director | Routing Area (rtg) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (bfd) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Deterministic Networking (detnet) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Inter-Domain Routing (idr) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Link State Vector Routing (lsvr) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Path Computation Element (pce) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks (roll) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | BGP Directorate (bgpdir) | [email protected] |
| Area Director | Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) | [email protected] |
| Chair | Routing Area Open Meeting (rtgarea) | [email protected] |
| Chair | Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) | [email protected] |
| Chair | BGP Directorate (bgpdir) | [email protected] |
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 | 9 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 | 10 RFCs |
| RFC 9086 | Aug 2021 | Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering | 6 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) | |
| RFC 9256 | Jul 2022 | Segment Routing Policy Architecture | 11 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 | 5 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 | |
| RFC 9513 | Dec 2023 | OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) | 2 RFCs |
| RFC 9514 | Dec 2023 | Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) | 2 RFCs |
| RFC 9552 | Dec 2023 | Distribution of Link-State and Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP | |
| RFC 9723 | May 2025 | BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) | |
| RFC 9792 | Jun 2025 | Prefix Flag Extension for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 | |
| 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 | |
| RFC 9831 | Sep 2025 | Segment Type Extensions for BGP Segment Routing (SR) Policy | |
| RFC 9857 | Oct 2025 | Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies Using BGP - Link State |
Active Internet-Drafts (15)
- draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-seglist-id
- draft-ietf-lsr-anycast-flag
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-flex-algo-ext
- draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext
- draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-metric
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-path-segment
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-epe-over-l2bundle
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-bgp-only-fabric
- draft-chen-spring-sr-policy-cp-validity
- draft-ietf-lsr-algorithm-related-adjacency-sid
- draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-segment
- draft-ietf-lsr-l2-bundle-member-remote-id
- draft-ietf-spring-pmtu-sr-policy
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-generic-metric
- draft-ietf-idr-performance-routing
Expired Internet-Drafts (48)
- draft-chen-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-cp-validity
- draft-chen-idr-bgp-sr-policy-cp-validity
- draft-decraene-spring-sr-mpls-aggregation-segment
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-te-path
- draft-ali-spring-sr-traffic-accounting
- draft-ali-spring-bfd-sr-policy
- draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-service-segments
- draft-dskc-bess-bgp-car-problem-statement
- draft-filsfils-spring-sr-policy-considerations
- draft-ppsenak-lsr-igp-event-notification
- draft-filsfils-spring-sr-mpls-ipv6-control-plane
- draft-xu-idr-neighbor-autodiscovery