Paul Vixie

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Paul Vixie
Nationality American
Occupation Founder/CEO of Farsight Security, Inc.,[1]
ARIN Trustee[2][3]
Known for ISC, BIND, MAPS, Vixie cron

Paul Vixie is an American Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and Unix software author.

Vixie attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, California. He received a Ph.D in computer science from Keio University in 2011.[4]

He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.

After he left DEC in 1994, he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) 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 server, Vixie at one point joined the Open Root Server Network (ORSN) project and operated their L root server.[5]

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.

In 1998, he cofounded Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS), a California non-profit company with the goal of stopping email abuse.

Vixie has stated in 2002 that he "now hold[s] the record for 'most CERT advisories due to a single author.'"[6][7]

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.[8]

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.[9]

Vixie also serves on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of ICANN.[10]

In 2013, after nearly 20 years at ISC, he founded a new company, Farsight Security, Inc. spinning off the Security Business Unit from ISC.[11]

Publications

  • Vixie, Paul; Avolio, Frederick M. (1995). Sendmail: Theory and Practice. Maynard, Mass: Digital Press. ISBN 1-55558-127-7. 

References

  1. ↑ Farsight Security
  2. ↑ ARIN Board of Trustees
  3. ↑ Paul Vixie's LinkedIN page
  4. ↑ Google+ Profile
  5. ↑ Flaming Mountainside
  6. ↑ 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." 
  7. ↑ Graff, Mark G.; Kenneth R. "van" Wyk (2003). Secure Coding: Principles and Practices. O'Reilly. pp. "Advance Praise" section. ISBN 0-596-00242-4. "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." 
  8. ↑ Paul Vixie listed as a judge on the Firefox 3 2008 Download Day
  9. ↑ Former Members of the Board of Trustees
  10. ↑ SSAC Membership
  11. ↑ "ISC Spins Off Its Security Business Unit". Internet Systems Consortium. Retrieved 2013-07-11. 

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