Eric Vyncke is a Distinguished Engineer based in the Brussels office of Cisco Systems. His main current technical focus is about telemetry and IPv6. He was previously involved in layer-2 security, VoIP security and large IPsec VPN designs. In his work for the IETF, he co-authored RFC 3585, 5514, 7381 and 7404 and is the Internet Area Director since March 2019. His works are related to IPv6 including co-authoring a book on IPv6 Security; he also authored another book on layer-2 security. Eric is the CTO of the Belgian IPv6 Council after being the co-chair. www.vyncke.org/ipv6status is well-known for several years to collect statistics about IPv6 deployment. He is also a visiting professor for security topics at the University of Mons. He is an adjunct professor at HEC, the business school of University of Liège, Belgium. He held a CISSP certification, is member of ISSA and speaks frequently at international conferences. As hobby, Eric like gardening, travelling around the world and flying small airplanes.