Chairman and Chief Scientist, Internet Systems Consortium
Joined on September 17, 2003 – United States
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Paul Vixie has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980. Early in his career, he developed and introduced sends, proxynet, rtty, cron and other lesser-known tools. Paul is considered the primary modern author and technical architect of BIND8 the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Version 8, which has since been replaced by BIND9 as the Internet's dominant open source reference implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS).
Paul Vixie founded ISC with Rick Adams in 1994 and was ISC President/CEO until early 2011. In his current role as Chairman and Chief Scientist, Paul ensures that ISC stays true to his original mission of developing and maintaining production quality open source reference implementations of core Internet protocols, such as BIND and DHCP, and evolving those standards. In 1995, Paul co-founded PAIX (Palo Alto Internet Exchange), which was sold to AboveNet in 1999, who in turn named Paul its Chief Technology Officer in 2000, and then President of the PAIX subsidiary in 2001. Paul also co-founded MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System), a California nonprofit company established in 1998 with the goal of stopping the Internet's email system from being abused by spammers. Since 2005 Paul as served on the ARIN Board of Trustees and served as Chairman in 2009 and 2010.
Along with Frederick Avolio, Paul co-wrote "Sendmail: Theory and Practice" (Digital Press, 1995). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen RFCs, mostly on DNS and related topics. He is a member of ICANN RSSAC and ICANN SSAC, and a frequent participant in IETF and NANOG.
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