Noel Chiappa

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.

Noel Chiappa
Born
Joseph Noel Chiappa

1956 (age 63–64)
Bermuda
Other namesJnc
Alma materMIT

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 Proteon, Inc., 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]

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.[9]

As of 2016, Chiappa was preparing to write iMucs, a Multics-like operating system.

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.[10]

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. DeNardis, Laura (2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780262258159.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.