Ned Freed has contributed as an IETF participant and RFC writer to a significant number of internet protocol standards.

Life

Edwin Earl "Ned" Freed was born in 1959 in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...

, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

. He graduated from Groton School

Groton School

Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, U.S. It enrolls approximately 375 boys and girls, from the eighth through twelfth grades...

 in 1978. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds....

 in 1982.

After College he set up a company, Innosoft, with two friends working on PMDF messaging systems on DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...

 Vax

VAX

VAX was an instruction set architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1970s. A 32-bit complex instruction set computer ISA, it was designed to extend or replace DEC's various Programmed Data Processor ISAs...

 systems. By 1993 he was involved in the MIME standard RFC1341.

From 1998 to 2000 he served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board

Internet Architecture Board

The Internet Architecture Board is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society ....

. He then served
on the Internet Engineering Steering Group

Internet Engineering Steering Group

The Internet Engineering Steering Group is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force chair and area directors.It provides the final technical review of Internet standards and is responsible for day-to-day management of the IETF...

 from 2000 to 2004. He currently works for Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

 as a Senior Principal Engineer.

Contributions

• Chair, nntpext, NNTP Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2005.
• Chair, notary, Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded November 1995.
• Chair, receipt, Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded April 1998.
• Chair, rescap, Resource Capabilities Discovery. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2003.
• Chair, smtpext, Internet Mail Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded March 1993.

He is the author or co-author of several
IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...

RFCs

Request for Comments

In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...

, most relating to e-mail or security. they include:

• RFC 6152, with John Klensin
  John Klensin
  Dr. John C. Klensin is a computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues.His career includes 30 years as a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, a stint as INFOODS Project Coordinator for the United Nations University, Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI WorldCom, and...
  
  , Marshall Rose, and Dave Crocker, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport,
• RFC 6009, Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions,
• RFC 5784, with Srinivas Saisatish Vedam, Sieve Email Filtering: Sieves and Display Directives in XML,
• RFC 5463, Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension,
• RFC 5260, Sieve Email Filtering: Date and Index Extensions,
• RFC 5230, with Tim Showalter, Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension,
• RFC 5183, Sieve Email Filtering: Environment Extension,
• RFC 4289, with John Klensin, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME
  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...
  
  ) Part Four: Registration Procedures,
• RFC 4288, with John Klensin, Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures,
• RFC 2979, Behavior of and Requirements for Internet Firewalls,
• RFC 2978, with Jon Postel
  Jon Postel
  Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards...
  
  , IANA
  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System , media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers...
  
   Charset Registration Procedures,
• RFC 2964, with Keith Moore
  Keith Moore
  Keith Moore is the author and co-author of severalIETFRFCs related to the MIMEand SMTP protocols for electronic mail, among others:...
  
  , Use of HTTP State Management,
• RFC 2920, SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining,
• RFC 2789, with Steve Kille, Mail Monitoring MIB,
• RFC 2788, with Steve Kille, Network Services Monitoring MIB,
• RFC 2480, Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts,
• RFC 2442, with Daniel Newman, Jacques Belissent and Mark Hoy, The Batch SMTP Media Type,
• RFC 2231, with Keith Moore, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations,
• RFC 2049, with Nathaniel Borenstein
  Nathaniel Borenstein
  Nathaniel S. Borenstein is an American computer scientist.He is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for formatting multimedia Internet electronic mail.-Biography:...
  
  , Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples,
• RFC 2046, with Nathaniel Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types,
• RFC 2045, with Nathaniel Borenstein, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies,
• RFC 2034, SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes,
• RFC 2017, with Keith Moore and Alan Cargille, Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type,
• RFC 1870, with John Klensin and Keith Moore, SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration,
• RFC 1869, with John Klensin, Marshall Rose, and Einar Stefferud, SMTP Service Extensions,
• RFC 1848, with Steve Crocker, James Galvin, and Sandy Murphy, MIME Object Security Services,
• RFC 1847, with James Galvin, Sandy Murphy, and Steve Crocker, Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted,
• RFC 1845, with Dave Crocker and Alan Cargille, SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart.