Stephen Deering is a former Fellow at

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, where he worked on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the

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. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at

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's Palo Alto Research Center, engaged in research on advanced Internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet. He is a former member of the

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, a past chair of numerous

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s of the

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(IETF), the inventor of

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, and the lead designer of the new version of the Internet Protocol,

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. By 2017 he was retired and living in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Education

Deering received his B.Sc. (1973) and M.Sc. (1982) from the

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, and his Ph.D. (1991) from

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. He attended high school at

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Recognition

Deering is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Internet Award for his work in IP multicast and IPv6. He was declared the 1994 "Geek of the Year" by Internet Talk Radio.

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