Ron Bonica
(Ronald Paul Bonica)
Pronouns: he/him

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Ron Bonica

Ron Bonica has participated in the IETF since 1998. He served three terms as co-director of the O&M Area and has chaired the CCAMP, L3VPN, V6OPS, LIME and SAVNET Working Groups. He has published over 24 RFCs in the Routing, Transport, Internet, and O&M Area.

Ron lives in Northern Virginia. He enjoys bicycling, weight training, chess and drawing.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Source Address Validation in Intra-domain and Inter-domain Networks (savnet) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Materials Manager IPv6 Operations (v6ops) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Reviewer (See reviews) Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Reviewer (See reviews) Internet Area Directorate (intdir) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Reviewer (See reviews) Ops Directorate (opsdir) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Tech Advisor IPv6 Operations (v6ops) ronald.bonica@hpe.com
Tech Advisor Network Virtualization Overlays (nvo3) ronald.bonica@hpe.com

RFCs (24)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 3609 Oct 2003 Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels
RFC 4684 Nov 2006 Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 20 RFCs
RFC 4797 Jan 2007 Use of Provider Edge to Provider Edge (PE-PE) Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) or IP in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks 2 RFCs
RFC 4884 Apr 2007 Extended ICMP to Support Multi-Part Messages 20 RFCs
RFC 4950 Aug 2007 ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching 6 RFCs
RFC 5837 Apr 2010 Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification 12 RFCs
RFC 5925 Jun 2010 The TCP Authentication Option 84 RFCs
RFC 6291 Jun 2011 Guidelines for the Use of the "OAM" Acronym in the IETF 27 RFCs
RFC 6890 Apr 2013 Special-Purpose IP Address Registries 21 RFCs
RFC 7112 Jan 2014 Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains 8 RFCs
RFC 7543 May 2015 Covering Prefixes Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 1 RFC
RFC 7588 Jul 2015 A Widely Deployed Solution to the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation Problem 2 RFCs
RFC 7676 Oct 2015 IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) 11 RFCs
RFC 7746 Jan 2016 Label Switched Path (LSP) Self-Ping
RFC 8161 May 2017 Benchmarking the Neighbor Discovery Protocol
RFC 8190 Jun 2017 Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address Registries 2 RFCs
RFC 8335 Feb 2018 PROBE: A Utility for Probing Interfaces 1 RFC
RFC 8642 Aug 2019 Policy Behavior for Well-Known BGP Communities
RFC 8900 Sep 2020 IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile 12 RFCs
RFC 9502 Nov 2023 IGP Flexible Algorithm in IP Networks 2 RFCs
RFC 9570 May 2024 Deprecating the Use of Router Alert in LSP Ping 1 RFC
RFC 9631 Aug 2024 The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)
RFC 9805 Jun 2025 Deprecation of the IPv6 Router Alert Option for New Protocols
RFC 9837 Aug 2025 The IPv6 VPN Service Destination Option

Active Internet-Drafts (14)

Expired Internet-Drafts (91)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity