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.
- , Use of HTTP State Management ;
- , On the use of HTTP as a Substrate ; and
- , describing the 6to4 mechanism for tunneling IPv6 packets over an IPv4 network.
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.