Juan-Carlos Zúñiga
(Juan Carlos Zuniga)

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Juan-Carlos Zúñiga

Juan Carlos Zuniga is a telecommunications expert with over 20 years of international experience. He is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, working for the Global Technical Standards team.

He is currently co-chair of the IETF Internet Area WG, co-chair of the MADINAS WG, and an active member of different Privacy, Security and IoT programs at the IAB, ISOC and IEEE.

In the past, he led the IPR and standardization strategy at the CTO office of SIGFOX Corp, a global IoT Network Operator and Service Provider. He also helped as Technical Program Manager (TPM) for the IoT-based Seismic Alert project in Mexico of the SIGFOX Foundation, which is an organization working on humanitarian causes.

Juan Carlos is highly skilled in positioning technology to drive standards, develop business and ensure market adoption. He is experienced in leading technology development and standardization activities in the areas of IoT, Data Privacy, NFV/SDN, 5G and Wi-Fi. He has contributed and held leadership roles in different standards fora, such as IETF, IEEE 802, ETSI, 3GPP and W3C. Juan Carlos has served as Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and he is inventor of more than 50 granted USPTO/EPO patents and 70 published applications.

Previously, he worked with InterDigtial Canada Ltd, Harris Communications Canada, Nortel Networks UK, and Kb/Tel Mexico. Juan Carlos received his engineering degree from the UNAM, Mexico, and his MSc from the Imperial College London, UK.

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair Internet Area Working Group (intarea) [email protected]
Chair MAC Address Device Identification for Network and Application Services (madinas) [email protected]
Chair Internet Area Directorate (intdir) [email protected]
Reviewer Internet Area Directorate (intdir) [email protected]
Secretary Internet Area Directorate (intdir) [email protected]

RFCs (9)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 5677 Dec 2009 IEEE 802.21 Mobility Services Framework Design (MSFD) 3 RFCs
RFC 7028 Sep 2013 Multicast Mobility Routing Optimizations for Proxy Mobile IPv6 3 RFCs
RFC 7429 Jan 2015 Distributed Mobility Management: Current Practices and Gap Analysis 3 RFCs
RFC 8568 Apr 2019 Network Virtualization Research Challenges 2 RFCs
RFC 8724 Apr 2020 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation 7 RFCs
RFC 8885 Oct 2020 Proxy Mobile IPv6 Extensions for Distributed Mobility Management 1 RFC
RFC 9119 Oct 2021 Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless Media 7 RFCs
RFC 9441 Jul 2023 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)
RFC 9442 Jul 2023 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) over Sigfox Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN)

Active Internet-Drafts (1)

Expired Internet-Drafts (26)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity