Joseph Noel Chiappa is a retired American researcher in computer networks, information systems architecture, and software.

Noel Chiappa
Born
Joseph Noel Chiappa

Other namesJnc[citation needed]
Alma materMIT

Education

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Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.[1]

Career

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Chiappa started work on MIT's multi-protocol Chaosnet router in 1980.[2][better source needed][3] This code routed Chaosnet and IP packets independently. It was later licensed to Proteon and formed the basis of their first multi-protocol router product.[4]

Chiappa designed the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).[5] He is acknowledged[clarification needed] in several other RFC's, such as RFC-826, RFC-919, RFC-950 and others.[6][7][8][citation needed] He has worked extensively on the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP).[citation needed] In 1992, Chiappa was also credited for fixing the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" protocol bug as well as other document problems.[9]

Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.[10] He served as the first Internet Area Director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group, from 1989 to 1992.[11]

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 initial Area Director for Internet Services of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1987-1992.[12][13][citation needed]

He was also involved in the development of IPv6, objecting to the IPng selection process.[14]

Other interests

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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[15][better source needed]

Personal life

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Chiappa lives[when?] in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.[15]

Notes

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  1. ^ Chiappa, Noel. "Biography of J. Noel Chiappa". Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  2. ^ History lesson: The origins of wiki, blog and other high-tech lingo
  3. ^ Zhang, Lixia (1987). How to build a Gateway -- C-Gateway: An Example (The Second International Conference on Computers and Applications, Beijing (Peking), Peoplesʼ Republic of China, June 23-27, 1987). Washington, D.C.: Computer Society Press of the IEEE ; Los Angeles, CA : Order from Computer Society of the IEEE. pp. 461–468. ISBN 978-0-8186-0780-6.
  4. ^ Cringely, Robert X. (1998-12-10). "Valley of the Nerds: Who Really Invented the Multiprotocol Router, and Why Should We Care?". Public Broadcasting Service. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  5. ^ RFC 783: THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) June 1981, Obsoleted by RFC-1350 July 1992
  6. ^ "RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware". Internet Engineering Task Force. November 1982.
  7. ^ "RFC 919: Broadcasting Internet Datagrams". Internet Engineering Task Force. October 1984.
  8. ^ "RFC 950: Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure". Internet Engineering Task Force. August 1985.
  9. ^ McNeil, John (2019). So you want to write a Java desktop application. Software Pulse. p. 118. ISBN 9780244754129.
  10. ^ Plaque image
  11. ^ IESG Past Members
  12. ^ Borsook, Pauline (21 May 1990). "SNMP vs. CMOT, again". IDG Network World Inc.
  13. ^ "IEEE Xplore: J. Noel Chiappa". IEEE.
  14. ^ DeNardis, Laura (2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780262258159.
  15. ^ a b Chiappa, Noel. "Brief biography of J. Noel Chiappa". Retrieved November 1, 2016.
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