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Matthew Bocci
Matthew Bocci is Director of Technology and Standards with the Service Router product management team at Nokia, specialising in MPLS/Segment Routing, IP routing, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs. He is also co-chair of the IETF Network Virtualisation Overlays (NVO3) and BGP Enabled Services (BESS) working groups, and has been a regular contributor to the IETF for many years. Matthew has co-authored numerous publications and IETF drafts and RFCs on MPLS-based converged networks, as well as being a regular speaker at industry conferences. He holds a PhD in network modeling from Queen Mary, University of London.
Roles
| Role | Group | |
|---|---|---|
| Chair | Network Virtualization Overlays (nvo3) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
| Chair | BGP Enabled ServiceS (bess) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
| Liaison Member | Nominating Committee 2026/2027 (nomcom2026) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
| Member | Internet Architecture Board (iab) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
| Member | IETF-IANA (ietfiana) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
| Reviewer (See reviews) | Routing Area Directorate (rtgdir) | matthew.bocci@nokia.com |
RFCs (24)
| RFC | Date | Title | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFC 4717 | Dec 2006 | Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) over MPLS Networks | 12 RFCs |
| RFC 5254 | Oct 2008 | Requirements for Multi-Segment Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) | 10 RFCs |
| RFC 5586 | Jun 2009 | MPLS Generic Associated Channel | 50 RFCs |
| RFC 5659 | Oct 2009 | An Architecture for Multi-Segment Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge | 20 RFCs |
| RFC 5921 | Jul 2010 | A Framework for MPLS in Transport Networks | 34 RFCs |
| RFC 5960 | Aug 2010 | MPLS Transport Profile Data Plane Architecture | 12 RFCs |
| RFC 6073 | Jan 2011 | Segmented Pseudowire | 18 RFCs |
| RFC 6215 | Apr 2011 | MPLS Transport Profile User-to-Network and Network-to-Network Interfaces | 4 RFCs |
| RFC 6370 | Sep 2011 | MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Identifiers | 23 RFCs |
| RFC 6478 | May 2012 | Pseudowire Status for Static Pseudowires | 9 RFCs |
| RFC 6718 | Aug 2012 | Pseudowire Redundancy | 8 RFCs |
| RFC 7167 | Apr 2014 | A Framework for Point-to-Multipoint MPLS in Transport Networks | |
| RFC 7212 | Jun 2014 | MPLS Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) Advertisement Protocol | 4 RFCs |
| RFC 7213 | Jun 2014 | MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Next-Hop Ethernet Addressing | 1 RFC |
| RFC 7267 | Jun 2014 | Dynamic Placement of Multi-Segment Pseudowires | 3 RFCs |
| RFC 7275 | Jun 2014 | Inter-Chassis Communication Protocol for Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) Provider Edge (PE) Redundancy | 6 RFCs |
| RFC 7338 | Sep 2014 | Requirements and Framework for Point-to-Multipoint Pseudowires over MPLS Packet Switched Networks | 3 RFCs |
| RFC 7392 | Dec 2014 | Explicit Path Routing for Dynamic Multi-Segment Pseudowires | |
| RFC 9088 | Aug 2021 | Signaling Entropy Label Capability and Entropy Readable Label Depth Using IS-IS | 7 RFCs |
| RFC 9089 | Aug 2021 | Signaling Entropy Label Capability and Entropy Readable Label Depth Using OSPF | 4 RFCs |
| RFC 9469 | Sep 2023 | Applicability of Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) to Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) Networks | 1 RFC |
| RFC 9613 | Aug 2024 | Requirements for Solutions that Support MPLS Network Actions (MNAs) | 4 RFCs |
| RFC 9789 | Jul 2025 | MPLS Network Actions (MNAs) Framework | 4 RFCs |
| RFC 9790 | Jul 2025 | IANA Registry and Processing Recommendations for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack | 1 RFC |
Active Internet-Drafts (0)
Matthew has no active Internet-Drafts as of 2026-08-10.Expired Internet-Drafts (32)
- draft-bocci-l2vpn-pnni-mpls-iw
- draft-dolganow-pwe3-ospf-ms-pw-ext
- draft-delord-jounay-pwe3-ldp-aii-reachability
- draft-bocci-pwe3-ge-ach
- draft-bocci-martini-pwe3-psn-congestion-bit
- draft-bocci-bryant-pwe3-ms-pw-arch
- draft-bocci-pwe3-app-frame-over-psn
- draft-koleyni-pwe3-app-cell-over-psn