Colin Robbins (born 1964) is a

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and software engineer credited for research work in distributed directory systems and a co-inventor of

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. Educated at

Alleyn's School Alleyn's School is a 4–18 co-educational, independent, Church of England, day school and sixth form in Dulwich, London, England. It is a registered charity and was originally part of Edward Alleyn's College of God's Gift charitable foundation, ...

, he holds a BSc, Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, with first class honours, from

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

. Robbins developed the Quipu directory part of the

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(ISODE) while a research assistant at UCL working for Peter Kirstein, he became custodian of ISODE from Marshall Rose in 1991. Quipu was used to prototype

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and DASED, which merged to invent

of which Robbins wrote the ''String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes'' element defined in RFCs 1448 and 1778 published by the

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. Robbins wrote part 3 of Steve Kille's book ''Implementing X.400 and X.500: the PP and QUIPU Systems''. Robbins was the Technical Architect and Vice-Chairman of the Europe-wide Nameflow Paradise directory, the world’s largest distributed deployment of

X.500 X.500 is a series of computer networking standards covering electronic directory services. The X.500 series was developed by the ITU-T, Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T). ITU-T was former ...

. He also led the Electronic Messaging Association's (EMA) world directory challenge for which he received the EMA's ''distinguished service award'' (1997), and led the European Electronic Messaging Association (EEMA) Security Challenge for which Robbins was awarded ''EEMA personality of the year'' (1998). Robbins is chartered by the

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, serving of the Boards of

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and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), as a sponsor member. He was co-chair of the

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(IACG) 2012-2014. He is Water Polo coach and vice-chair at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Robbins, Colin English computer scientists Living people People in information technology People associated with computer security Alumni of University College London People educated at Alleyn's School 1964 births