Keith Moore


Keith Moore 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 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 ;
  • 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.
He has also written or co-written RFCs on other topics, including
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.