John Klensin

John Klensin
John Klensin
	John Klensin, 2007
Citizenship	US
Alma mater	SB 1966, PhD 1979Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	i18n,SMTP,MIME
Awards	INCITS Merit Award, Fellow of the ACM, Internet Hall of Fame
	Scientific career
Fields	Political Science, Computer Science
Institutions	MIT, MCI, AT&T
Thesis	An evaluation of some geometric methods for automatic exploration of multivariate data.(1979)
Doctoral advisor	Aaron Fleisher

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

Career

His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist atMIT,including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinator for theUnited Nations University,distinguished engineering fellow atMCI WorldCom,and Internet architecture vice president atAT&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 theMulticsoperating system.

Internet

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

In 1992,Randy Bushand John Klensin created theNetwork Startup Resource Center,^[9]helping dozens of countries to establish connections withFidoNet,UseNet,and when possibleInternet.

IETF

Klensin is the author or co-editor of over 40RFCs,^[10]and has served asIETFApplications Area director 1993-1995,^[11]Internet Architecture Boardmember 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 includeSMTP(including RFC 4409 and RFC 5321),IDNA(including RFC 5890 and RFC 6055),Unicode(including RFC 5137 and RFC 5198), and other fields includingCRAM-MD5(RFC 2195) and IETF policies (RFC 3933). In March 20118BITMIME(RFC 6152) was published asInternet standardSTD 71. In November 2011Mail submission(RFC 6409) was published asSTD72.

Hisi18nwork also included anApril Fools' Day RFCin collaboration withHarald Alvestrand(RFC 5242) andMIMEin collaboration withNed Freed(RFC 4289 among others). As of 2011^[update],he is a member of theRFC Independent Submissions Editorial Board.^[14]He is working on several Internet drafts.^[15]

Awards and honours

2003 -INCITS Merit Award.^[16]
2007 - inducted as a Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery.^[17]
2012 - inducted into theInternet Hall of Fameby theInternet Society.^[18]

References

^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.
^^a ^b"Biography of John Klensin at the ICANN web site".Retrieved2014-02-10.
^^a ^bCade Metz (2012-10-09)."Meet John Klensin, Internet History's Jack of All Trades".Internet Society.Retrieved2014-02-10.
^"The Cambridge Project: An Interview | News | The Harvard Crimson".thecrimson.
^"Multics Glossary -C-".multicians.org.
^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.
^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.
^"Internet Experts selected to fill top organizational posts".ISOC.1998-04-03. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-08-13.Retrieved2011-07-23.
^"About the Network Startup Resource Center".nsrc.org.NSRC. 1992. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-08-13.Retrieved2014-02-10.
^"RFC publication list at networksorcery".Retrieved2014-02-10.
^"List of IESG members at the IETF website".Retrieved2008-06-17.
^"A brief history of the IAB — Chairs".Retrieved2011-07-23.
^"List of IAB members from the IAB website".Retrieved2009-07-10.
^"Independent Submissions Editorial Board".rfc-editor.org.2011.Retrieved2014-02-10.
^"John Klensin Data".Document Stats -- What is Going on in the IETF?.Retrieved2014-02-10.
^"INCITS Awards Honor Roll".INCITS.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-08-01.Retrieved2011-07-25.
^"List of 2007 ACM Fellows inductees".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-06-19.Retrieved2008-06-17.
^Internet Society (2012)."2012 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees".Internet Society. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-12-13.Retrieved2013-07-13.

[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.

[icann1-2] "Biography of John Klensin at the ICANN web site".Retrieved2014-02-10.

[internethalloffame1-3] Cade Metz (2012-10-09)."Meet John Klensin, Internet History's Jack of All Trades".Internet Society.Retrieved2014-02-10.

[4] "The Cambridge Project: An Interview | News | The Harvard Crimson".thecrimson.

[5] "Multics Glossary -C-".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 fromthe originalon 2011-08-13.Retrieved2011-07-23.

[9] "About the Network Startup Resource Center".nsrc.org.NSRC. 1992. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-08-13.Retrieved2014-02-10.

[10] "RFC publication list at networksorcery".Retrieved2014-02-10.

[11] "List of IESG members at the IETF website".Retrieved2008-06-17.

[12] "A brief history of the IAB — Chairs".Retrieved2011-07-23.

[13] "List of IAB members from the IAB website".Retrieved2009-07-10.

[14] "Independent Submissions Editorial Board".rfc-editor.org.2011.Retrieved2014-02-10.

[15] "John Klensin Data".Document Stats -- What is Going on in the IETF?.Retrieved2014-02-10.

[16] "INCITS Awards Honor Roll".INCITS.Archived fromthe originalon 2013-08-01.Retrieved2011-07-25.

[17] "List of 2007 ACM Fellows inductees".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-06-19.Retrieved2008-06-17.

[18] Internet Society (2012)."2012 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees".Internet Society. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-12-13.Retrieved2013-07-13.

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