Ned Freed

Ned Freed has contributed as an IETF participant and RFC writer to a significant number of internet protocol standards.

Life

Edwin Earl "Ned" Freed was born in 1959 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated from Groton School in 1978. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 1982.

After College he set up a company, Innosoft, with two friends working on PMDF messaging systems on DEC Vax systems. By 1993 he was involved in the MIME standard RFC1341.^[1]

From 1998 to 2000 he served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board. He then served on the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 2000 to 2004. He currently works for Oracle Corporation as a Senior Principal Engineer.

Contributions

• Chair, nntpext, NNTP Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2005.
• Chair, notary, Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded November 1995.
• Chair, receipt, Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded April 1998.
• Chair, rescap, Resource Capabilities Discovery. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2003.
• Chair, smtpext, Internet Mail Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded March 1993.

He is the author or co-author of several IETF RFCs, most relating to e-mail or security. As of 2011 they include:

• RFC 6152, with John Klensin, Marshall Rose, and Dave Crocker, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport,
• RFC 6009, Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions,
• RFC 5784, with Srinivas Saisatish Vedam, Sieve Email Filtering: Sieves and Display Directives in XML,
• RFC 5463, Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension,
• RFC 5260, Sieve Email Filtering: Date and Index Extensions,
• RFC 5230, with Tim Showalter, Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension,
• RFC 5183, Sieve Email Filtering: Environment Extension,
• RFC 4289, with John Klensin, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures,
• RFC 4288, with John Klensin, Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures,
• RFC 2979, Behavior of and Requirements for Internet Firewalls,
• RFC 2978, with Jon Postel, IANA Charset Registration Procedures,
• RFC 2964, with Keith Moore, Use of HTTP State Management,
• RFC 2920, SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining,
• RFC 2789, with Steve Kille, Mail Monitoring MIB,
• RFC 2788, with Steve Kille, Network Services Monitoring MIB,
• RFC 2480, Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts,
• RFC 2442, with Daniel Newman, Jacques Belissent and Mark Hoy, The Batch SMTP Media Type,
• RFC 2231, with Keith Moore, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations,
• RFC 2049, with Nathaniel Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples,
• RFC 2046, with Nathaniel Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types,
• RFC 2045, with Nathaniel Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies,
• RFC 2034, SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes,
• RFC 2017, with Keith Moore and Alan Cargille, Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type,
• RFC 1870, with John Klensin and Keith Moore, SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration,
• RFC 1869, with John Klensin, Marshall Rose, and Einar Stefferud, SMTP Service Extensions,
• RFC 1848, with Steve Crocker, James Galvin, and Sandy Murphy, MIME Object Security Services,
• RFC 1847, with James Galvin, Sandy Murphy, and Steve Crocker, Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted,
• RFC 1845, with Dave Crocker and Alan Cargille, SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart.

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