RIP Mark Crispin

[Posted February 22, 2013 by ris]

Wikipedia's biography on Mark Crispin notes that he passed away last December. "Mark Reed Crispin (born July 19, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey; died December 28, 2012 in Poulsbo, Washington) is best known as the father of the IMAP protocol, having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory. He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs; and is the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501. He also designed the mix mail storage format." The news of the illness that led to his death was posted on the imap5 mailing list. (Thanks to Jonathan Abbey)

RIP Mark Crispin

Posted Feb 22, 2013 20:01 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link]

I never got to meet Mark, but I read him on the comp.mail.imap newsgroup for years, talked with him in email on a number of occasions, and have used his software for going on two decades now.

Thanks for everything, Mark.