Wengyik Yeong

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name = Wengyik Yeong


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birth_date = July 28, 1966
birth_place = Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
death_date = October 2007
death_place = Lower Paxton, Pennsylvania
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citizenship = United States of America
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field = Computer Science
work_institution = PSINet
alma_mater = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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known_for = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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Wengyik 'Weng' Yeong (1966 – October, 2007 [cite web
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He also authored and edited several Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for comments (RFCs), including the original specification for LDAP [RFC 1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)] .

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