Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie
Nationality	American
Occupation	Founder/CEO of Farsight Security, Inc.,
Known for	ISC, BIND, MAPS, Vixie cron

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

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

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 Digital Equipment Corporation (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.

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.

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