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Paul Vixie

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Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie in 2014
Born (1963-05-23) May 23, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKeio University
Occupation(s)Vice President, Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS) [1]
Known forISC, BIND, MAPS, Vixie cron

Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology.[2] He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service.[3] He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises. In 2002, Vixie held the record for "most CERT advisories due to a single author".[4][5]

Early life

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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 school. I used to cut school and go to City College of San Francisco, where they had a Honeywell system" — Paul Vixie[7]

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

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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]

In 2021, Vixie's company FarSight Security was acquired by DomainTools.[21] Since 2022, he has been working at AWS.[22]

Realizations

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Works

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  • Paul Vixie. Software Engineering an essay in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution 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

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  • US 6581090, Lindbo, Sverker; Löthberg, Peter & Vixie, Paul, "Procedure and apparatus for information transmission on the Internet", issued 1996-10-14 

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Paul Vixie's LinkedIn page".
  2. ^ 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. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ Reid, Brian ISC founder Paul Vixie inducted into the 2014 Internet Hall of Fame Archived 2021-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, ISC, April 9, 2014 (accessed March 25 2017)
  4. ^ a b Graff, Mark G.; Kenneth R. van Wyk (2003). Secure Coding: Principles and Practices. O'Reilly. pp. "Advance Praise" section. 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.
  5. ^ "Paul Vixie : Security vulnerabilities, CVEs". www.cvedetails.com. Archived from the original on 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  6. ^ "Paul A Vixie, Born 05/23/1963 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  7. ^ a b "FREEWARE PIONEERS / Vixie's Bind Made Names for Web". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  8. ^ "40 years on, the Internet transmits every aspect of our lives". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  9. ^ "The Future of the Internet and Privacy". www.bankinfosecurity.com. Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ a b Executive Profile: Paul Vixie Archived 2018-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, Bloomberg (accessed 25 March 2017).
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "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.
  15. ^ "Former Members of the Board of Trustees". Archived from the original on 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  16. ^ "SSAC Membership". Archived from the original on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
  17. ^ "Google+ Profile". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
  18. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. ^ "ISC Spins Off Its Security Business Unit". Internet Systems Consortium. 2 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
  20. ^ "Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees". ISOC. 8 April 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
  21. ^ DNSFilter (2021-11-18). DNS Encryption Webinar: Paul Vixie (Farsight Security) and Peter Lowe (DNSFilter) on DNS-over-HTTPS. Retrieved 2024-08-07 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ "Defining the Role of Distinguished Engineers | AWS Executive Insights". Amazon Web Services, Inc. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  23. ^ "ISC DHCP". Internet Software Consortium. Archived from the original on 2014-01-17. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
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