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Acronym: ISC
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Internet Software Consortium
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on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC in 1994, he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)|Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet. The activities of ISC were assumed by a new company, [[Interne |
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Acronym: IANA
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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e System]] (DNS) hierarchy. Most commonly it refers to the root zone of the largest global DNS, deployed for the Internet. The zone is managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), managed by ICANN. A combination of limits in the DNS and certain protocols, namely the practical size of unfragmented User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets, resulted in a limited number of |
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Acronym: DNS
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Domain Name System
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encyclopedic to remain)</comment> <text xml:space="preserve">'''Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris''' is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. He had recognized the problem in the e |
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Acronym: MIT
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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org/test/index.php/wiwiw/pioneers/paul_v_mockapetris) Mockapetris received two bachelor's degrees (in Physics and in Electrical Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1971, and his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 1982. In 1978, Mockapetris joined ISI, where he lat |
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Acronym: IAB
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Internet Architecture Board
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has also chaired the Research Working Group of the U.S. Federal Networking Council. He was a member of the Defense Messaging System Advisory Council, and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Mockapetris has also worked as the program manager for networking at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (1990 – 1993), and for the In |
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Acronym: PCEN
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Postel Center for Experimental Networking
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from 1999), and Nominum (from 1999) where he is now board chairman. On March 31, 2003, he rejoined ISI as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Postel Center for Experimental Networking (PCEN) Computer Networks Division. == Nominum == According to ZDnet, in 2009, Mockapetris-headed company Nominum proposed for the implementation of highly disputed Internet censorship systems in Ger |
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