John D. Day (from Kinmundy, Illinois, born 1947)[1] is an electrical engineer, an Internet pioneer,[2] and a historian.[2][3][4] He has been involved in the development of the communication protocols of Internet and its predecessor ARPANET since the 1970s,[4][5] and he was also active in the design of the OSI reference model.[4][5][6][7] He has contributed in the research and development of network management systems, distributed databases, supercomputing, and operating systems.[6][8]
Day received his BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1970 and MSc degree in 1976 from the University of Illinois.[6]
From 1969 through 1978 he worked on the Illiac IV supercomputer project.
Day is the author of the 2008 book Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals,[2][3][9] which gave rise to Network IPC, later referred to as the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA), and the RFC documents RFC 520, RFC 728, RFC 731, and RFC 732. He has also published articles on the history of cartography,[6][8] on topics such as Matteo Ricci's 16th–17th century maps.[10]
^ ab"Part-Time Faculty". Boston University Metropolitan College, Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
^Day, John (2007). Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals. Prentice Hall. ISBN978-0-13-225242-3.
^Day, John D. (1995). "The search for the origins of the Chinese manuscript of Matteo Ricci's maps". Imago Mundi. 47: 94–117. doi:10.1080/03085699508592815. JSTOR1151306.