Noel Chiappa

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Noel Chiappa
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Born
Joseph Noel Chiappa

1956 (age 64–65)[citation needed]
Bermuda
Other namesJnc
Alma materMIT

Joseph Noel Chiappa (b. 1956 Bermuda) is an Internet pioneer. He is a US resident and a retired researcher working in the area of information systems architecture and software, principally computer networks.

Education[]

Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.

Career[]

As a staff researcher and Internet technology pioneer at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Chiappa co-invented the multi-protocol router. In addition to wide use at MIT, that router was later used at Stanford in 1982; other multi-protocol routers at Stanford were invented independently by William Yeager.[1][2][3] The MIT multi-protocol router became the basis of the multi-protocol router from , the first commercially available multi-protocol router (January, 1986).[4]

Chiappa was the first to propose and design the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).[5] It was only revised by others including Bob Baldwin, Dave Clark, and Steve Szymanski.[6] He is acknowledged in several other RFC's, such as RFC-826, RFC-919, RFC-950 and others. He has worked extensively on the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP). In 1992, Chiappa was also credited for fixing the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" protocol bug as well as other document problems.[7]

Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.[8] He served as the first Internet Area Director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group, from 1989 to 1992.[9]

From 2012, Chiappa was working on long-term issues in both the Internet Research Task Force and Internet Engineering Task Force and its predecessors; he served as the Area Director for Internet Services of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1987-1992. He is also involved in the development of the IP: next generation (IPng). A report, for instance, documented his objection to the IPng selection process and cited his alternative IPng project called Nimrod.[10]

Other interests[]

Among many non-technical interests, he is particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints, and helps maintain online catalogue raisonnés for two major woodblock artists, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Utagawa Hiroshige II.

Personal life[]

Chiappa lives in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.[11]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Valley of the Nerds: Who Really Invented the Multiprotocol Router, and Why Should We Care?, Public Broadcasting Service, Accessed August 11, 2007.
  2. ^ Router Man, NetworkWorld, Accessed June 22, 2007.
  3. ^ David D. Clark, "M.I.T. Campus Network Implementation", CCNG-2, Campus Computer Network Group, M.I.T., Cambridge, 1982; pp. 26.
  4. ^ History lesson: The origins of wiki, blog and other high-tech lingo
  5. ^ RFC 783: THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) June 1981, Obsoleted by RFC-1350 July 1992
  6. ^ Shanmugam, Ramadas; Padmini, R.; Nivedita, S. (2002). Special Edition Using TCP/IP, Second edition. Que Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 0789727099.
  7. ^ McNeil, John (2019). So you want to write a Java desktop application. Software Pulse. p. 118. ISBN 9780244754129.
  8. ^ Plaque image
  9. ^ IESG Past Members
  10. ^ DeNardis, Laura (2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780262258159.
  11. ^ Chiappa, Noel. "Brief biography of J. Noel Chiappa". Retrieved November 1, 2016.

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