Marc Blanchet
President at Bénévoles d'Expertise
Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc Blanchet is an experienced internet engineer and entrepreneur who has led Viagenie since 1996 and spent over three decades shaping IP networking, IPv6 adoption, VoIP, and emerging space networking standards. He is a prolific IETF contributor and chair/co-chair of numerous working groups, authoring books and around 20 RFCs while founding the Space Assigned Numbers Authority to bring Internet-style governance to space networks. Currently focused on applying IP to deep-space systems and advising IETF tiptop and ediint efforts, he blends protocol design, standards leadership, and hands-on engineering. Marc also writes mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin and has active interests in AI and AR, reflecting a practical cross-section of research, product work, and standards influence. Based in Quebec, he pairs an electrical engineering MSc with a rare mix of academic publications, standards authorship, and volunteer leadership across ICANN, CCSDS, and other governance bodies.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Génie électrique, M.Sc. Génie électrique at Université Laval
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Github Skills (108)
database-engine10
xml-serializer10
ietf10
rdap10
encoder9
django9
firefox9
database9
swift9
nosql-database9
codable9
xml-parser9
quic9
decoder9
mozilla9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
netconf-wg/netconf-over-quic
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 6 months
deepspaceip/deepspaceip.github.io
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Deepspace IP web site
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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