Wengyik 'Weng' Yeong (1966–2007) was an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

. He is principally known for his work on the X.500,

LDAP The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP ) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory servi ...

, and

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behaviour. Devices that typically ...

Internet protocols. He also authored and edited several

Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or requirements and a ...

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(RFCs), including the original specification for LDAP. - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

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1966 births 2007 deaths Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni American computer scientists Malaysian emigrants to the United States {{Compu-scientist-stub