Noel Chiappa

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

Noel Chiappa
Born
Joseph Noel Chiappa

Bermuda
Other namesJnc
Alma materMIT

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. Chiappa, Noel. "Brief biography of J. Noel Chiappa". Retrieved November 1, 2016.
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