John Klensin

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John Klensin
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John Klensin, 2007
Citizenship US
Alma materSB 1966, PhD 1979 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for i18n, SMTP, MIME
AwardsINCITS Merit Award, Fellow of the ACM, Internet Hall of Fame
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical Science, Computer Science
InstitutionsMIT, MCI, AT&T
Thesis An evaluation of some geometric methods for automatic exploration of multivariate data. [1]  (1979)
Doctoral advisor Aaron Fleisher
2012 Internet Hall of Fame inductees, including John Klensin (seated, second from left) Internet Hall of Fame inductees 2012.JPG
2012 Internet Hall of Fame inductees, including John Klensin (seated, second from left)

John C. Klensin is a political scientist and computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues. [2] [3]

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Career

His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist at MIT, including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University, distinguished engineering fellow at MCI WorldCom, and Internet architecture vice president at AT&T; he is now an independent consultant. [2] [3]

The Cambridge Project

Klensin was involved in The Cambridge Project, [4] a social science data management cooperation project taking place at MIT, Harvard and other universities from 1969 to 1977. As a part of this program, John Klensin led the development of the Consistent System [5] [6] [7] targeted for use by Social Scientists. The Consistent System ran on top of the Multics operating system.

Internet

His involvement with Internet protocols began in 1969, when he worked on the File Transfer Protocol. [8]

In 1992, Randy Bush and John Klensin created the Network Startup Resource Center, [9] helping dozens of countries to establish connections with FidoNet, UseNet, and when possible Internet.

IETF

Klensin is the author or co-editor of 60 RFCs, [10] and has served as IETF Applications Area director 1993-1995, [11] Internet Architecture Board member 1996-2002, and its chair 2000-2002. [12] He again served on the Board from 2009 to 2011. [13]

The RFCs written or edited by Klensin include SMTP (including RFC 4409 and RFC 5321), IDNA (including RFC 5890 and RFC 6055), Unicode (including RFC 5137 and RFC 5198), and other fields including CRAM-MD5 (RFC 2195) and IETF policies (RFC 3933). In March 2011 8BITMIME (RFC 6152) was published as Internet standard STD 71. In November 2011 Mail submission (RFC 6409) was published as STD 72.

His i18n work also included an April Fools' Day RFC in collaboration with Harald Alvestrand (RFC 5242) and MIME in collaboration with Ned Freed (RFC 4289 among others). As of 2011, he is a member of the RFC Independent Submissions Editorial Board. [14] He is working on several Internet drafts. [15]

Awards and honours

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Klensin, John C. (1979). An evaluation of some geometric methods for automatic exploration of multivariate data. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
  2. 1 2 "Biography of John Klensin at the ICANN web site" . Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  3. 1 2 Cade Metz (2012-10-09). "Meet John Klensin, Internet History's Jack of All Trades". Internet Society. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  4. ↑ "The Cambridge Project: An Interview | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
  5. ↑ "Multics Glossary -C-". www.multicians.org.
  6. ↑ Yntema, Douwe B.; Dempster, Arthur P.; Gilbert, John P.; Klensin, John C.; McMains, Wren M.; Porter, William; Stamen, Jeffrey P.; Wiesen, Raymond A. (August 1, 1972). "The Cambridge project's consistent system". Proceedings of the ACM annual conference on - ACM '72. Vol. 2. Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 976–977. doi:10.1145/800194.805886. ISBN   9781450374927. S2CID   19079441 – via ACM Digital Library.
  7. ↑ Crawford, Cynthia; Klensin, John; Selfridge, Oliver (August 1, 1972). "Cambridge project (Panel Session)". Proceedings of the ACM annual conference on - ACM '72. Vol. 2. Association for Computing Machinery. p. 975. doi:10.1145/800194.805885. ISBN   9781450374927. S2CID   46113913 – via ACM Digital Library.
  8. ↑ "Internet Experts selected to fill top organizational posts". ISOC. 1998-04-03. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  9. ↑ "About the Network Startup Resource Center". nsrc.org. NSRC. 1992. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  10. ↑ "IETF profile of John Klensin" . Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  11. ↑ "List of IESG members at the IETF website" . Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  12. ↑ "A brief history of the IAB — Chairs" . Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  13. ↑ "List of IAB members from the IAB website" . Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  14. ↑ "Independent Submissions Editorial Board". rfc-editor.org. 2011. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  15. ↑ "John Klensin Data". Document Stats -- What is Going on in the IETF?. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  16. ↑ "INCITS Awards Honor Roll". INCITS. Archived from the original on 2013-08-01. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
  17. ↑ "List of 2007 ACM Fellows inductees". Archived from the original on 2008-06-19. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  18. ↑ Internet Society (2012). "2012 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees". Internet Society. Archived from the original on 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2013-07-13.


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