Noel Chiappa
Born
Joseph Noel Chiappa

Bermuda
Other namesJnc
Alma materMIT

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

Education

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

Career

Chiappa started work on MIT's multi-protocol Chaosnet router in 1980.[2] 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.[3]

Chiappa designed the original version of Trivial 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). In 1992, Chiappa was also credited for fixing the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" protocol bug as well as other document problems.[5]

Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.[6] He served as the first Internet Area Director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group, from 1989 to 1992.[7]

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.

He was also involved in the development of IPv6, objecting to the IPng selection process.[8]

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[9]

Personal life

Chiappa lives in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.[9]

Notes

  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. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ RFC 783: THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) June 1981, Obsoleted by RFC-1350 July 1992
  5. ↑ McNeil, John (2019). So you want to write a Java desktop application. Software Pulse. p. 118. ISBN 9780244754129.
  6. ↑ Plaque image
  7. ↑ IESG Past Members
  8. ↑ DeNardis, Laura (2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 52. ISBN 9780262258159.
  9. 1 2 Chiappa, Noel. "Brief biography of J. Noel Chiappa". Retrieved November 1, 2016.
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