RIP Mark Crispin
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)