Laurent Toutain
Professor at Acklio
Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Toutain is a professor and IPv6 specialist with over two decades of experience researching IP networking, home networking, and the Internet of Things at IMT Atlantique. He co-authored key IPv4/IPv6 transition mechanisms (DSTM and Softwires RFC5571), contributed to ROHC studies, and leads the PRATIC project on IP for home environments. Laurent co-founded Acklio to bring constrained-network innovations to market and has collaborated on implementations and evaluations of IPv4 port-sharing and SAM with industry partners. His work spans routing for home and wireless sensor networks, TCP/header compression, IMS identity management, and IPv6 security architectures, and he holds a patent for application-level address allocation. A founding member of the French G6 IPv6 research group and president of AFNIC’s Scientific Council since 2007, he blends deep protocol design experience with practical deployments and academic leadership. An unexpectedly entrepreneurial researcher, he translates protocol research into real-world prototypes and startups.
12 years of coding experience
Lycée Jules SiegfriedChallenge+, Challenge+ at HEC Paris
Github Skills (23)
python10
compression10
pycom9
workbench8
yang8
ipv68
modeling-tool7
lorawan7
describe7
plc7
lora6
micropython6
coap6
eda5
nb-iot5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ltn22/OAM
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
ltn22/core-sid-extension
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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