Russ White, a Routing Protocols Deployment Engineer at Cisco Systems, is a frequent Networkers speaker on routing protocols and router architecture, and the co-author of several IETF requests for comments (RFCs). He is well known within and outside Cisco for his routing protocols expertise. Russ is CCIE #2635, and one of the reviewers and question writers for the CCIE written exam. Alvaro Retana, a Technical Leader in Cisco Systems' Core IP Engineering Department, has first-hand expertise in the development and testing of routing protocols such as IS-IS, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, and BGP4. Alvaro is CCIE #1609, and serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Russ and Alvaro (along with Don Slice) are also the authors of EIGRP for IP: Basic Operation and Configuration (Addison-Wesley, 2000) and Advanced IP Network Design (CCIE Professional Development; Cisco Press, 1999). They are currently working on a new book covering the deployment of the BGP protocol for Addison-Wesley.