Career
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1870, defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected;
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2017, defining a (rarely implemented) means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL;
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2047 amended by Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2231, defining a mechanism to allow non-ASCII characters to be encoded in text portions of a message header (but not in email addresses);
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3461 obsoleting Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1891,
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3463 obsoleting Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1893,
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3464 obsoleting Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1894, which together define a standard mechanism for reporting of delivery failures or successes in Internet email. And
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3834, standards for processes that automatically respond to electronic mail. He has also written or co-written RFCs on other topics, including
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 2964, Use of HTTP State Management (recommending constraints on the use of "cookies" to address privacy concerns);
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3205, On the use of HTTP as a Substrate (discussing the use of HTTP as a layer underneath other protocols).
And
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3056, describing the 6to4 mechanism for tunneling Internet Protocol version 6 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.
