Academic
Mark Crispin
Father of Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
- Life
- 1956 – 2012
- Born
- July 19, 1956
- Died
- December 28, 2012
- Nationality
- United States
Mark Reed Crispin is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), 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 was 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.
