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Paul Vixie is an American
Early life
Paul A Vixie was born on 23 May 1963 and grew up in San Francisco, and his mother's maiden name is Killian.[6]
"There were no computers at my
In 1980, when George Washington High School in San Francisco told him he'd have to repeat 11th grade, he quit school and got a job as a programmer at a consulting firm.[7][8][9]
Career
Vixie worked on BIND[10] as a software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1988 to 1993.[1] After he left DEC in 1994,[11] he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) in 1996[1] together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet. The activities of ISC were assumed by a new company, Internet Systems Consortium in 2004. Although ISC operates the F root name server, Vixie at one point joined the Open Root Server Network (ORSN) project and operated their L root server.
In 1995 he cofounded the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX) and, after Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) bought it in 1999, served as the chief technology officer to MFN / AboveNet and later as the president of PAIX.[12]
In 1998 he cofounded Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS), a California non-profit company with the goal of stopping email abuse.
Vixie is the author of several Request for Comments (RFC)s, including a Best Current Practice document on "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation" (BCP 20),[12] and some Unix software. He stated in 2002 that he "now hold[s] the record for 'most CERT advisories due to a single author.'"[13][4]
In 2008, Vixie served as a judge for the Mozilla Foundation's "Download Day", an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads in a single day for a new piece of software.[14]
Vixie served on the board of trustees of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) from 2005 to 2013, and served as chairman in 2009 and 2010.[15] Vixie also serves on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of ICANN.[16]
He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Keio University in 2011.[17][18]
In 2013, after nearly 20 years at ISC, he founded a new company, Farsight Security, Inc. spinning off the Security Business Unit from ISC.[19]
In 2014, Vixie was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as an Innovator.[20]
Realizations
Works
- Paul Vixie. Software Engineering an essay in: ISBN 1-56592-582-3
- Vixie, Paul; Avolio, Frederick M. (1995). Sendmail: Theory and Practice. Maynard, Mass: Digital Press. ISBN 978-1-55558-127-5.
Patents
- US 6581090, Lindbo, Sverker; Löthberg, Peter & Vixie, Paul, "Procedure and apparatus for information transmission on the Internet", issued 1996-10-14
References
- ^ a b c "Paul Vixie's LinkedIn page".
- ^ Filkins, Dexter (8 October 2018). "Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers". NewYorker.com. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Reid, Brian ISC founder Paul Vixie inducted into the 2014 Internet Hall of Fame, ISC, April 9, 2014 (accessed March 25 2017)
- ^ ISBN 978-0-596-00242-8.
If this book had existed when I was learning C in the early 1980s, then I might not now hold the record for 'most CERT advisories due to a single author.' Anyone who wants a coding job at ISC in the future should be prepared to demonstrate that they have read and understand Secure Coding.
- ^ "Paul Vixie : Security vulnerabilities, CVEs". www.cvedetails.com. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ "Paul A Vixie, Born 05/23/1963 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b "FREEWARE PIONEERS / Vixie's Bind Made Names for Web". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ "40 years on, the Internet transmits every aspect of our lives". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ "The Future of the Internet and Privacy". www.bankinfosecurity.com. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.16.20/history.html
- ^ https://seltzerbooks.com/internethistory.html
- ^ a b Executive Profile: Paul Vixie, Bloomberg (accessed 25 March 2017).
- ^ Vixie, Paul (2002-02-26). "Re: Malformed SNMP Packet log/trace". North American Network Operations Group mailing list. Archived from the original on 2003-03-20. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
note that i hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.
- ^ "Paul Vixie listed as a judge on the Firefox 3 2008 Download Day". Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
- ^ "Former Members of the Board of Trustees".
- ^ "SSAC Membership".
- ^ "Google+ Profile".
- ^ https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/paul-vixie/
- ^ "ISC Spins Off Its Security Business Unit". Internet Systems Consortium. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
- ^ "Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees". ISOC. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ^ "ISC DHCP". Internet Software Consortium. Archived from the original on 2014-01-17. Retrieved 2017-01-05.