Noel Chiappa
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J. Noel Chiappa (b. 1956 Bermuda) is an US-resident Internet pioneer and researcher working in the area of information systems architecture and software, principally computer networks.
Education[edit]
Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.
Career[edit]
As a staff researcher and Internet technology pioneer at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Chiappa 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 implemented independently by William Yeager.[1][2][3] The MIT multi-protocol router became the basis of the multi-protocol router from Proteon, Inc., the first commercially-available multi-protocol router (January, 1986).
Chiappa also designed the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).[4] 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).
He is currently 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. Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.[5]
Other interests[edit]
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[edit]
Chiappa lives in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Valley of the Nerds: Who Really Invented the Multiprotocol Router, and Why Should We Care?, Public Broadcasting Service, Accessed August 11, 2007.
- ^ Router Man, NetworkWorld, Accessed June 22, 2007.
- ^ David D. Clark, "M.I.T. Campus Network Implementation", CCNG-2, Campus Computer Network Group, M.I.T., Cambridge, 1982; pp. 26.
- ^ RFC 783: THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) June 1981, Obsoleted by RFC-1350 July 1992
- ^ Plaque image
External links[edit]
- Official homepage
- RFC-1251 "Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members
- Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
- Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826-1869)
