Joseph Noel Chiappa is a retired researcher who worked in the area of information systems architecture and software, principally computer networks.

Education

Chiappa attended

Saltus Grammar School Saltus Grammar School, founded in 1880, is an independent school in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda. It was a boys' school until 1992, when it became co-educational. It has two campuses, one for the Lower Primary (Foundation - Year 2) and one for the U ...

in Bermuda, and

Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover, Massachusetts, Andover , stat ...

and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

in the US.

Career

Chiappa started work on the multiprotocol Proteon router in 1980 router. Chiappa designed the original version of

Trivial File Transfer Protocol Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple lockstep File Transfer Protocol which allows a client to get a file from or put a file onto a remote host. One of its primary uses is in the early stages of nodes booting from a local area netwo ...

(TFTP). 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. Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the

Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford __notoc__ The Gates Computer Science Building, or Gates building for short, is an L-shaped building that houses the Stanford University Computer Science, Computer Science Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory at 353 Jane Stanford W ...

. He served as the first Internet Area Director on the

Internet Engineering Steering Group The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and a ...

, from 1989 to 1992. From 2012, Chiappa was working on long-term issues in both the

Internet Research Task Force The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is an organization, overseen by the Internet Architecture Board, that focuses on longer-term research issues related to the Internet. A parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), fo ...

and

Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements an ...

and its predecessors; he served as the initial Area Director for Internet Services of the

from 1987-1992. He was also involved in the development of the

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. I ...

, objecting to the IPng selection process.

Other interests

Among many non-technical interests, he is particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints, and helps maintain online ''

catalogue raisonné A ''catalogue raisonné'' (or critical catalogue) is a comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media. The works are described in such a way that they may be reliably identified ...

s'' for two major woodblock artists,

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ( ja, 月岡芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi ; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese printmaker. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005)"Tsukoka Kōgyō"in ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 1000. Yoshitoshi h ...

and Utagawa Hiroshige II

Personal life

Chiappa lives in

Yorktown, Virginia Yorktown is a census-designated place (CDP) in York County, Virginia. It is the county seat of York County, one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Yorktown's population was 195 as of the 2010 census, while York Co ...

with his family.

Notes

External links

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)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiappa, Noel 1956 births Living people History of the Internet Bermudian emigrants to the United States People from Yorktown, Virginia Internet pioneers