Keith Moore Explained
Keith Moore (born 12 October 1960) is the author and co-author of several IETF RFCs related to the MIME and SMTP protocols for electronic mail, among others:
- , defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected;
- , defining a (rarely implemented) means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL;
- amended by, defining a mechanism to allow non-ASCII characters to be encoded in text portions of a message header (but not in email addresses);
- obsoleting,
- obsoleting,
- obsoleting, which together define a standard mechanism for reporting of delivery failures or successes in Internet email,
- , standards for processes that automatically respond to electronic mail; and
- , recommending the use of TLS for email submission and access, and the deprecation of cleartext versions of the protocols used for those purposes.[1]
He has also written or co-written RFCs on other topics, including
- , Use of HTTP State Management (recommending constraints on the use of "cookies" to address privacy concerns);
- , On the use of HTTP as a Substrate (discussing the use of HTTP as a layer underneath other protocols); and
- , describing the 6to4 mechanism for tunneling IPv6 packets over an IPv4 network.
He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1985, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee in 1996.
From 1996 to 1999 he served as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group as one of two co-directors for the Applications Area.[2]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Chirgwin. Richard. Who can save us? It's 2018 and some email is still sent as cleartext. The Register. 2 February 2018. 1 February 2018.
- Internet Engineering Task Force. "IESG Past Members", accessed 5 February 2018.
