Steve Kille is an English software engineer. He has worked on Internet technologies since 1980, and was one of the principal engineers behind the

ISO Development Environment The ISODE software (pronounced eye-soo-dee-eee), more formally the ''ISO Development Environment'', was an implementation of the OSI upper layer protocols, from transport layer to application layer, which was used in the Internet research communit ...

(ISODE) open-source implementation of the OSI protocol stack. He was born in London, had his Master's in physics from

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, and a master's in electrical engineering from

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and

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(the latter being attended on a

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). From 1981 to 1992, he was a researcher at

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, focusing on research into network-based applications. He founded Isode Limited in 1992, focusing on high end messaging and directory products, initially employing the ISODE codebase. In 1999, he managed the merger of ISODE to form MessagingDirect, and subsequently spent two years in California. In 2001, MessagingDirect was acquired by ACI Worldwide, and Steve re-launched Isode in 2002, again focusing on X.400 and directory products. Steve is the author of at least 32 IETF RFCs, has published one book, "Implementing X.400 and X.500: the PP and QUIPU Systems" (), and has contributed to several others.

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External links

ISODE's management biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kille, Steve English computer scientists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Oxford Stanford University alumni