Keith Moore

{{Short description|American computer specialist (born 1960)}}

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Keith Moore (born 12 October 1960) is the author and co-author of several IETF RFCs related to the MIME and SMTP protocols for electronic mail, among others:

• {{IETF RFC|1870|link=no}}, defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected;
• {{IETF RFC|2017|link=no}}, defining a (rarely implemented) means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL;
• {{IETF RFC|2047|link=no}} amended by {{IETF RFC|2231|link=no}}, defining a mechanism to allow non-ASCII characters to be encoded in text portions of a message header (but not in email addresses);
• {{IETF RFC|3461|link=no}} obsoleting {{IETF RFC|1891|link=no}},
• {{IETF RFC|3463|link=no}} obsoleting {{IETF RFC|1893|link=no}},
• {{IETF RFC|3464|link=no}} obsoleting {{IETF RFC|1894|link=no}}, which together define a standard mechanism for reporting of delivery failures or successes in Internet email,
• {{IETF RFC|3834|link=no}}, standards for processes that automatically respond to electronic mail; and
• {{IETF RFC|8314|link=no}}, recommending the use of TLS for email submission and access, and the deprecation of cleartext versions of the protocols used for those purposes.{{cite web|last1=Chirgwin|first1=Richard|title=Who can save us? It's 2018 and some email is still sent as cleartext|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/01/ietf_attacks_cleartext_email/|website=The Register|accessdate=2 February 2018|date=1 February 2018}}

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

• {{IETF RFC|2964|link=no}}, Use of HTTP State Management (recommending constraints on the use of "cookies" to address privacy concerns);
• {{IETF RFC|3205|link=no}}, On the use of HTTP as a Substrate (discussing the use of HTTP as a layer underneath other protocols); and
• {{IETF RFC|3056|link=no}}, describing the 6to4 mechanism for tunneling IPv6 packets over an IPv4 network.

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.Internet Engineering Task Force. [https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/past-members/ "IESG Past Members"], accessed 5 February 2018.