Technical Profile of Marc Blanchet

• 20+ years of experience in IP networks and Unix systems.
  • CTO of a IPv6 access router company. Technical leadership, Management of the development, support and QA team, business development, investor relations.
  • Management of a consulting and R and D company in IP networking and security.
  • Consultant in IPv6, Internationalization, Network security
  • Developer of user interfaces, routing software, web-oracle apps, VoIP (Asterisk), IPv6, etc.
  • Network and Unix System admin
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Laval University.
    
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Activities:
    • Co-chaired the Internationalized Domain Names (idn) IETF working group.
    • Co-chaired the vCard and CardDAV IETF working group.
    • Author or co-author of IETF RFC and drafts
  • IPv6 Industry
  • Co-founder, member of the board, member of the technical directorate, IPv6Forum.
  • Director and Member of the steering committee, North American IPv6 Task Force.
  • Vice-Chair, ISACC IPv6 Task Group
  • Author of IP networking books
  • Authored and delivered courses on IPv6, Network Security, PKI, TCP/IP. Speaker at various conferences.
  • Co-inventor of 6 (pending) patents.
  • Other Professional activities
  • Technical contact for .ca cctld
  • Co-founder of the Québec Internet Society Chapter.
  • Member of ICANN IDN registry implementation committee (~2000-2001)
  • Member of Canarie CA*Net (2,3,4) technical committee (1998-)
  • Member of the design/editing team for IETF Process revision (Problem Statement) (2002-2003)
  • Board member of Internet Society-Canada (~1997-1999)
  • Founder and president of a local Unix User's group (1991-1996)
  • Publications
    • Books:
      • Migrating to IPv6 book, Wiley, 2006.
      • TCP/IP Simplifié book, Éditions Logiques, 1997, 1999.
      • IP Addressing and Subnetting including IPv6 book, as a technical editor, Syngress, 2000.
    • Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) RFC:
      • RFC 3454, Preparation of Internationalized Strings("stringprep"). P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet. December 2002.
      • RFC 3491, Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile forInternationalized Domain Names (IDN). P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet. March2003.
      • RFC 3531, A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bits of an IPv6 Address Block. M. Blanchet. April 2003.
      • RFC 5156, Special-Use IPv6 Addresses. M. Blanchet. April 2008.
    • Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) Internet-draft:
      • "IPv6 Tunnel Broker with the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP)", Florent Parent, Marc Blanchet, September 2005, draft-blanchet-v6ops-tunnelbroker-tsp-xx.txt.
      • "IPv6 Routing Policies Guidelines", Marc Blanchet, March 2006, draft-blanchet-v6ops-routing-guidelines-xx.txt.
      • "IPv6 Test Address Space Reserved for Documentation, Examples and Private Testing", Marc Blanchet, May 2001, draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-xx.txt.
      • Suggestions to Streamline the IETF Process, Marc Blanchet, November 2002, draft-blanchet-evolutionizeietf-suggestions-xx.txt.
      • "Language Preference for email", Marc Blanchet, draft-blanchet-preflang-xx.txt.
      • "Internationalized domain names using EDNS(IDNE)", Marc Blanchet and Paul Hoffman, March 2001, draft-ietf-idn-idne-xx.txt.
      • "Handling versions of internationalized domain names protocols", Marc Blanchet, 2001, draft-ietf-idn-version-xx.txt.
      • "Optical BGP(OBGP): InterAS lightpath Provisioning", Florent Parent, Marc Blanchet and Bill St-Arnaud, March 2001, draft-parent-obgp-xx.txt.
      • "Reference ID for NTPv6", Jean-Francois Boudreault and Marc Blanchet, November 2001, draft-boudreault-ipv6-ntp-refid-xx.txt.
• Marc Blanchet's Blog