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:
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 (rarely implemented) 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 (but not in
email addresses);
RFC
3464 obsoleting RFC
1894, which together define a standard mechanism for reporting of delivery failures or successes in Internet email,
RFC
3834, standards for processes that automatically respond to electronic mail; and
RFC
8314, recommending the use of TLS for email submission and access, and the deprecation of cleartext versions of the protocols used for those purposes.[1]
He has also written or co-written RFCs on other topics, including
RFC
2964, Use of
HTTP State Management (recommending constraints on the use of "
cookies" to address privacy concerns);
RFC
3205, On the use of HTTP as a Substrate (discussing the use of HTTP as a layer underneath other protocols); and
RFC
3056, describing the
6to4 mechanism for tunneling
IPv6 packets over an
IPv4 network.