Full Name Noel Chiappa | Name Noel Chiappa | |
Born 1956 (age 58) | ||
Joseph Noel Chiappa (b. 1956 Bermuda) is an Internet pioneer. He is a US-resident and researcher working in the area of information systems architecture and software, principally computer networks.
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Education
Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.
Career
As a staff researcher and Internet technology pioneer at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Chiappa invented the multi-protocol router. In addition to wide use at MIT, that router was later used at Stanford in 1982; other multi-protocol routers at Stanford were implemented independently by William Yeager. The MIT multi-protocol router became the basis of the multi-protocol router from Proteon, Inc., the first commercially available multi-protocol router (January, 1986).
Chiappa designed the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (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).
Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.
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 Area Director for Internet Services of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1987-1992.
As of 2016, Chiappa was preparing to write iMucs, a Multics-like operating system.
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.
Personal life
Chiappa lives in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.