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Paul Vixie

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Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. [1]

31 relations: AboveNet, American Registry for Internet Numbers, BIND, California, Carl Malamud, CERT Coordination Center, Computer science, Cron, Digital Equipment Corporation, Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Email spam, George Washington High School (San Francisco), Guinness World Records, ICANN, Internet, Internet Hall of Fame, Internet Systems Consortium, Keio University, Mail Abuse Prevention System, Mozilla Foundation, Open Root Server Network, PAIX, Palo Alto, California, Request for Comments, Rick Adams (Internet pioneer), Root name server, San Francisco, Sendmail, United States, Unix.

AboveNet

AboveNet was a provider of high bandwidth telecommunication circuits primarily for large corporate enterprises and communications carriers in 17 markets in the United States and four markets in Europe.

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American Registry for Internet Numbers

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Canada, the United States, and many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands.

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BIND

BIND, or named, is the most widely used Domain Name System (DNS) software on the Internet.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Malamud

Carl Malamud (born 1959) is an American technologist, author, and public domain advocate, known for his foundation Public.Resource.Org.

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CERT Coordination Center

The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is the coordination center of the computer emergency response team (CERT) for the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a non-profit United States federally funded research and development center.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Cron

The software utility cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on UDP/IP networks whereby a DHCP server dynamically assigns an IP address and other network configuration parameters to each device on a network so they can communicate with other IP networks.

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Email spam

Email spam, also known as junk email, is a type of electronic spam where unsolicited messages are sent by email.

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George Washington High School (San Francisco)

George Washington High School is a public high school in Richmond District, San Francisco, California.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numericalspaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet Hall of Fame

The Internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society (ISOC) in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the Internet.

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Internet Systems Consortium

Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations.

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Keio University

, abbreviated as or, is a private university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Mail Abuse Prevention System

The Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) is an organization that provides anti-spam support by maintaining a DNSBL.

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Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.

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Open Root Server Network

Open Root Server Network (ORSN) is a network of Domain Name System root nameservers for the Internet.

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PAIX

PAIX, the 'Palo Alto Internet eXchange' was a neutral Internet exchange point.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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Request for Comments

In information and communications technology, a Request for Comments (RFC) is a type of publication from the technology community.

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Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)

Richard L. "Rick" Adams, Jr. is an American Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP).

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Root name server

A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sendmail

Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie

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