Eliot Lear

Eliot Lear is a longtime member of the Internet Engineering Task Force and author of several Request for Comments. He is a consulting 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.

• Eliot Lear's homepage

Requests for Comment

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