Paul Mockapetris - Career

Career

In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System architecture in RFC 882 and RFC 883. He had recognized the problem in the early Internet (then ARPAnet) of holding name to address translations in a single table on a single host, and instead proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as it exists today.

Mockapetris is a member of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery. He:

  • joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC) in 1978, where he:
    • developed the first SMTP email server,
    • proposed the DNS architecture in 1983,
    • wrote the first DNS implementation (called "Jeeves") for the TOPS-20 in 1983,
    • served as director of the high performance computing and communications division;
  • was program manager for networking at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense from 1990 to 1993;
  • served as chair of the Research Working Group of the U.S. Federal Networking Council;
  • served as chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 1994 to 1996;
  • was a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in 1994 and 1995;
  • worked for several Internet-related companies: employee number two at @Home (1995–1997), Software.com (1997–1998) (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), Verent/Siara (now Redback Networks) (1998–1999), Urban Media (1999–2001), and NU Domain (from 1999);
  • is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board of IP address infrastructure software provider Nominum (1999 to present).

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