Alvaro Retana

Alvaro Retana is VP, Technology Strategy in the Future Networks group at Futurewei Technologies. He is a Board Member of the Industry Network Technology Council (INTC), has published 4 technical books, and has been awarded over 60 patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Alvaro has been participating in the IETF since 1998, mainly in the Routing Area. He previously co-chaired the Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg) and the Source Packet Routing in Networking WG (spring), and has co-authored several documents on routing technology. Alvaro currently serves as Routing Area Director.