Joseph Noel Chiappa is a retired American researcher in computer networks, information systems architecture, and software.

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Noel Chiappa
Born	Joseph Noel Chiappa Bermuda
Other names	Jnc[citation needed]
Alma mater	MIT

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Chiappa attended Saltus Grammar School in Bermuda, and Phillips Academy and MIT in the US.^[1]

Chiappa started work on MIT's multi-protocol Chaosnet router in 1980.^{[2][better source needed]} This code routed Chaosnet and IP packets independently. It was later licensed to Proteon and formed the basis of their first multi-protocol router product.^[3]

Chiappa designed the original version of Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).^[4] He is acknowledged^{[clarification needed]} in several other RFC's, such as RFC-826, RFC-919, RFC-950 and others.^{[citation needed]} He has worked extensively on the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP).^{[citation needed]} In 1992, Chiappa was also credited for fixing the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" protocol bug as well as other document problems.^[5]

Chiappa is listed on the "Birth of the Internet" plaque at the entrance to the Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford.^[6] He served as the first Internet Area Director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group, from 1989 to 1992.^[7]

From 2012, Chiappa was working on long-term issues in both the Internet Research Task Force and Internet Engineering Task Force and its predecessors; he served as the initial Area Director for Internet Services of the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1987-1992.^{[citation needed]}

He was also involved in the development of IPv6, objecting to the IPng selection process.^[8]

Among many non-technical interests, he is particularly interested in Japanese woodblock prints, and helps maintain online catalogue raisonnés for two major woodblock artists, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Utagawa Hiroshige II^{[9][better source needed]}

Chiappa lives^[when?] in Yorktown, Virginia with his family.^[9]