Adrian Farrel is a British engineer and author, specialising in developing

computer network A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are ...

protocols for the Internet. He is active in the

Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and a ...

. He was a founder of Aria Networks Ltd, who manufacture sophisticated, next-generation network modelling, path computation, and optimisation tools for

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses. Whereas network addresses identify endpoints the labels identif ...

GMPLS Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) is a protocol suite extending MPLS to manage further classes of interfaces and switching technologies other than packet interfaces and switching, such as time-division multiplexing, layer-2 switchin ...

, and IP networks, and served as their Chief Technology Officer for two years. He also runs a consulting company specialising in

and

. Previously he was an MPLS architect and development manager at software house Data Connection Ltd., and director of protocol development for Movaz Networks Inc. He also co-authored a research paper.IEEE Communication Magazine October 2007 Vol.45 No.10

Biography

Adrian Farrel is the co-chair of the IETF's: ''L2VPN Service Model'' (L2SM) working group.L2VPN Service Model (L2SM)
/ref> He was previously a Routing Area Director in the

IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and a ...

,IETF Area Director Biographic Information
/ref>
/ref> and was sponsored for this activity by

Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company develops and markets networking products, including routers, switches, network management software, network security products, ...

. Formerly he was co-chair of five

IETF working group The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and a ...

s, namely the ''L3VPN Service Model'' (L3SM) working group,L3VPN Service Model (L3SM)
/ref> the ''Interface to Network Service Functions'' (I2NSF) working group,Interface to Network Service Functions (I2NSF)
/ref> ''CCAMP'',
''PCE'',IETF's Working Group

and ''L1VPN'',IETF's Working Grou

which are responsible for developing

and

related standards. He has authored or co-authored more than 50

Request for Comments A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). An RFC is authored by individuals or g ...

(RFCs) the IETF's standards documentsIETF RFCs Co-authored by Adrian Farrel
/ref> making him equal 10th most prolific author in the IETFDistribution of IETF Authors According to How Many Documents They Have Publishe

/ref> with an

h-index The ''h''-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. The ''h''-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as winn ...

of 12.IETF Author Impact Factors
/ref> On 18 October 2017 he was appointed Independent Submission Editor (ISE) for the

RFC Editor A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). An RFC is authored by individuals or g ...

to serve for two years beginning on 15 February 2018. He co-edited a special edition of the

IEEE Communications Magazine The ''IEEE Communications Magazine'' is a monthly magazine published by the IEEE Communications Society dealing with all areas of communications including light-wave telecommunications, high-speed data communications, personal communications syst ...

IEEE Communication Magazine July 2005 Vol.43 No.7
/ref> on

and is the author of a number of books. From 2008 to 2011 Adrian served as a Trustee and member of the Standing Board of the Llangollen

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Farrel was on the Technical Program Committee for the 15th Annual Conference MPLS in 2012 and again in 2014 as one of two Routing Area Directors in the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Other activities

Adrian Farrel is a member of the

Pirate Party UK The Pirate Party UK (often abbreviated PPUK; in cy, Plaid Môr-leidr DU) was a political party in the United Kingdom. The Pirate Party's core policies were to bring about reform to copyright and patent laws, support privacy, reduce surveillance f ...

, and since 4 July 2015 has been an elected Governor of the party. On 14 December 2016 he was appointed Chair of the Board of Governors, a position he held until the party was disbanded at the end of 2020. Adrian has also authored four volumes of fairy tales. He blogs about fairy tales and fairy stories.

Books

* ''Tales from the Castle'' (FeedARead, 2019), * ''Tales from Beyond the Wood'' (FeedARead, 2017), * ''More Tales from the Wood'' (FeedARead, 2016), * ''Tales from the Wood'' (FeedARead, 2015), * ''Wireless Networking Complete'' (with multiple authors,

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a Burlington, Massachusetts (San Francisco, California until 2008) based publisher specializing in computer science and engineering content. Since 1984, Morgan Kaufmann has published content on information technolog ...

Burlington Burlington may refer to: Places Canada Geography * Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador * Burlington, Nova Scotia * Burlington, Ontario, the most populous city with the name "Burlington" * Burlington, Prince Edward Island * Burlington Bay, no ...

: 2009), * ''Network Management: Know It All'' (

: 2008), * ''Network Quality of Service: Know It All'' (

: 2008), * ''MPLS: Next Steps'' (with Bruce S. Davie,

: 2008), * ''GMPLS: Architecture and Applications'' (with Igor Bryskin,

: 2005), * ''The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach'' (

: 2004),

References

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