Ned Freed


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. He graduated from Groton School in 1978. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 1982.
After College he set up a company, Innosoft, with Kevin Carosso and Daniel Newman, working on PMDF messaging systems on DEC VAX 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. He then served
on the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 2000 to 2004. He currently works for Oracle Corporation as a Senior Principal Engineer.
Ned has served as the IANA Media Types reviewer since 2000.

Contributions

He is the author or co-author of several
IETF
RFCs, most relating to e-mail or security. they include: