Ned Freed (1959 - 22 May 2022) was an IETF participant and Request for Comments author who contributed to a significant number of Internet Protocol standards, mostly related to email. He is best known as the co-inventor of email MIME attachments, with Nathaniel Borenstein. 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 served as the IANA Media Types reviewer since 2000. Ned worked for Oracle Corporation as an Architect. He passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Contributions Co-chair, dmarc, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance. IETF working group, Applications area. Co-chair, imapmove, IMAP MOVE extension. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded January 2013. Co-chair, nntpext, NNTP Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2005. Co-chair, notary, Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded November 1995. Co-chair, receipt, Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded April 1998. Co-chair, rescap, Resource Capabilities Discovery. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded October 2003. Co-chair, smtpext, Internet Mail Extensions. IETF working group, Applications area. Concluded March 1993. He is the author or co-author of fifty IETF RFCs, most relating to e-mail or security. These include: RFC 9078, with Dave Crocker and R. Signes, Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to a Message, RFC 7103, with Murray Kucherawy and Gregory Shapiro, Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages, RFC 6851, with Arnt Gulbrandsen, Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MOVE Extension, RFC 6838, with John Klensin and Tony Hansen, Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures, RFC 6532, with Abel Yang and Shawn Steele, Internationalized Email Headers, RFC 6152, with John Klensin, Marshall Rose, and Dave Crocker, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport, RFC 6009, Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions, RFC 5784, with Srinivas Saisatish Vedam, Sieve Email Filtering: Sieves and Display Directives in XML, RFC 5463, Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension, RFC 5260, Sieve Email Filtering: Date