Keith Moore

Who is 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:

⁕RFC 1870, defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected;

⁕RFC 2017, defining a means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL;

⁕RFC 2047 amended by RFC 2231, defining a mechanism to allow non-ASCII characters to be encoded in text portions of a message header;

⁕RFC 3461 obsoleting RFC 1891,

⁕RFC 3463 obsoleting RFC 1893,

⁕RFC 3464 obsoleting RFC 1894, which together define a standard mechanism for reporting of delivery failures or successes in Internet email; and

⁕RFC 3834, standards for processes that automatically respond to electronic mail.

He has also written or co-written RFCs on other topics, including

⁕RFC 2964, Use of HTTP State Management;

⁕RFC 3205, On the use of HTTP as a Substrate; and

⁕RFC 3056, describing the 6to4 mechanism for tunneling IPv6 packets over an IPv4 network.