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Mark Crispin

Also Known As Mark Reed Crispin
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Mark Reed Crispin (July 19, 1956 to December 28, 2012) is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol, having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He was the author or co-author of numerous Requests for Comments and was the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501, and he also designed the MIX mail storage format.

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Birth Year
1956 1
Birth Date
1956-07-19 1
Death Year
2012 1
Death Date
2012-12-28 1
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1. Mark Crispin (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Mark Reed Crispin
    Mark Reed Crispin
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1956
    1956
  • P569 (date of birth): 1956-07-19
    1956-07-19
  • P570 (date of death): year 2012
    2012
  • P570 (date of death): 2012-12-28
    2012-12-28
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