Yakov Rekhter works at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he is a Cisco Fellow. He is one of the leading designers of Tag Switching, BGP/MPLS VPNs, and MPLS Traffic Engineering. He is also one of the leading designers of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). He is the author/co-author of many RFCs, as well as numerous presentations, papers, and articles on TCP/IP and the Internet.