Colin Robbins (born 1964) is a network protocol and software engineer credited for research work in distributed directory systems and a co-inventor of LDAP.
Educated at Alleyn's School, he holds a BSc, Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, with first class honours,[citation needed] from University College London.
Quipu was used to prototype DIXIE and DASED, which merged to invent LDAP of which Robbins wrote the String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes[2] element defined in RFCs 1448[3] and 1778[4] published by the IETF.
He also led the Electronic Messaging Association's (EMA) world directory challenge[8] for which he received the EMA's distinguished service award (1997),[citation needed] and led the European Electronic Messaging Association (EEMA) Security Challenge[9] for which Robbins was awarded EEMA personality of the year (1998).
[10] Robbins is chartered by the Institute of Directors,[11] serving of the Boards of Nexor and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC),[12] as a sponsor member.