{"id":33801,"date":"2026-06-18T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lacnic.net\/?post_type=autor&#038;p=33801"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:34:18","slug":"alvaro-retana","status":"publish","type":"autor","link":"https:\/\/blog.lacnic.net\/en\/author\/alvaro-retana\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvaro Retana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c1lvaro Retana is Vice President of Technology Strategy at Futurewei Technologies, Inc. He is actively involved with the IETF, where he co-chairs the spring Working Group (Source Packet Routing in Networking), co-chairs the rasprg Research Group (Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes), and is the author of several RFCs. 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