Erik Naggum
Overview
Erik Naggum was a computer programmer
recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs
and Lisp. Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet
discussion groups.
Naggum made significant contributions to RFC 1123
, which defines and discusses the requirements for Internet host software, and RFC 2049
, which defines electronic information transfer of various binary formats through e-mail.
In a 1999 newspaper article in Dagbladet
, he was interviewed about his aggressive, confrontational participation in Usenet discussion groups.
Programmer
A programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs
Emacs
Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
and Lisp. Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
discussion groups.
Naggum made significant contributions to RFC 1123
Link Layer
In computer networking, the link layer is the lowest layer in the Internet Protocol Suite , the networking architecture of the Internet . It is the group of methods or protocols that only operate on a host's link...
, which defines and discusses the requirements for Internet host software, and RFC 2049
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard that extends the format of email to support:* Text in character sets other than ASCII* Non-text attachments* Message bodies with multiple parts...
, which defines electronic information transfer of various binary formats through e-mail.
In a 1999 newspaper article in Dagbladet
Dagbladet
Dagbladet is Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, and the third largest newspaper overall with a circulation of 105,255 copies in 2009, 18,128 papers less than in 2008. The editor in chief is Lars Helle....
, he was interviewed about his aggressive, confrontational participation in Usenet discussion groups.