Eliot Lear is a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several Request for Comments. He is a principal engineer for Cisco Systems after working for Silicon Graphics as an Internet Architect. Mr. Lear is a graduate of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ.
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A partial list of RFCs authored or co-authored by Eliot Lear:
RFC 1627 - Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be Codified)
RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets
RFC 3617 - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme and Applicability Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol
RFC 4192 - Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day
RFC 4219 - Things Multihoming in IPv6 (MULTI6) Developers Should Think About
RFC 4450 - Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents
RFC 4744 - Using the NETCONF Protocol over the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)
RFC 4833 - Timezone Options for DHCP
RFC 6557 - Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database
