Noel Chiappa

Noel Chiappa
Born

Noel Chiappa
1956 (age 58)
Bermuda

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

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 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 Trivia 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

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.

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. ↑ RFC 783: THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) June 1981, Obsoleted by RFC-1350 July 1992
  5. ↑ Plaque image

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