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Mockapetris</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Mockapetris.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Paul_Mockapetris.JPG/220px-Paul_Mockapetris.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Paul_Mockapetris.JPG/330px-Paul_Mockapetris.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Paul_Mockapetris.JPG/440px-Paul_Mockapetris.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Paul Mockapetris in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> in 2013</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1948 (age 76–77)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_at_Irvine" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California at Irvine">University of California at Irvine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Inventing the <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">Domain Name System</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Internet_Award" title="IEEE Internet Award">IEEE Internet Award</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ACM_Fellow" title="ACM Fellow">ACM Fellow</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIGCOMM_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGCOMM Award">SIGCOMM Award</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Software_System_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Software System Award">Software System Award</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer Science">Computer Science</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Paul V. Mockapetris</b> (born 1948 in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, US) is an American <a href="/wiki/Computer_scientist" title="Computer scientist">computer scientist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_pioneer" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet pioneer">Internet pioneer</a>, who invented the Internet <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">Domain Name System</a> (DNS). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mockapetris graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Latin_School" title="Boston Latin School">Boston Latin School</a> in 1966, received his bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering from the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> in 1971 and his doctorate in information and computer science from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_at_Irvine" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California at Irvine">University of California at Irvine</a> in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISINames-2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BiologyDaily-2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System architecture in RFC 882 and RFC 883. He had recognized the problem in the early <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> (then <a href="/wiki/ARPAnet" class="mw-redirect" title="ARPAnet">ARPAnet</a>) of holding name to address translations in a single table on the <a href="/wiki/Hosts_(file)" title="Hosts (file)">hosts</a> file of an <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>. Instead he proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as it exists today.<sup id="cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISINames-2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BiologyDaily-2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Achievements">Achievements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Achievements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mockapetris is a fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery. He:<sup id="cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISINames-2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BiologyDaily-2006-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>joined the <a href="/wiki/Information_Sciences_Institute" title="Information Sciences Institute">Information Sciences Institute</a> (ISI) of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a> (USC) in 1978, where he: <ul><li>developed the first <a href="/wiki/SMTP" class="mw-redirect" title="SMTP">SMTP</a> email server,</li> <li>proposed the DNS architecture in 1983,</li> <li>wrote the first DNS implementation (called "Jeeves") for the <a href="/wiki/TOPS-20" title="TOPS-20">TOPS-20</a> in 1983,</li> <li>served as director of the high performance computing and communications division;</li></ul></li> <li>was program manager for networking at the <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Research_Projects_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Advanced Research Projects Agency">Advanced Research Projects Agency</a> (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense from 1990 to 1993;</li> <li>served as chair of the Research Working Group of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Networking_Council" title="Federal Networking Council">U.S. Federal Networking Council</a>;</li> <li>served as chair of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force" title="Internet Engineering Task Force">Internet Engineering Task Force</a> (IETF) from 1994 to 1996;</li> <li>was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Architecture_Board" title="Internet Architecture Board">Internet Architecture Board</a> (IAB) in 1994 and 1995;</li> <li>worked for several Internet-related companies: employee number two at @Home (1995–1997), Software.com (1997–1998) (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), Cerent/Siara (now Redback Networks) (1998–1999), Urban Media (1999–2001), and NU Domain (from 1999);</li> <li>was Chief Scientist and chairman of the Board of IP address infrastructure software provider <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nominum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nominum (page does not exist)">Nominum</a> (1999 to 2016).</li> <li>is currently Chief Scientist at ThreatSTOP.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1997 <a href="/wiki/John_C._Dvorak" title="John C. Dvorak">John C. Dvorak</a> Telecommunications Excellence Award "Personal Achievement - Network Engineering" for DNS design and implementation<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2002 Distinguished Alumnus award from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine" title="University of California, Irvine">University of California, Irvine</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003 <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Internet_Award" title="IEEE Internet Award">IEEE Internet Award</a> for his contributions to DNS<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004 <a href="/wiki/ACM_Fellow" title="ACM Fellow">ACM Fellow</a>, for contributions to the Internet, including the development of domain and email protocols.<sup id="cite_ref-acm-awards_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acm-awards-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2005 ACM <a href="/wiki/SIGCOMM_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGCOMM Award">SIGCOMM Award</a> for lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks in recognition of his foundational work in designing, developing and deploying the Domain Name System, and his sustained leadership in overall Internet architecture development<sup id="cite_ref-SIGCOMMlist0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIGCOMMlist0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2006 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award for co-authoring paper "Development of the Domain Name System"<sup id="cite_ref-SIGCOMMlist1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIGCOMMlist1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2006 <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> Member</li> <li>2012 inducted by the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Society" title="Internet Society">Internet Society</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Hall_of_Fame" title="Internet Hall of Fame">Internet Hall of Fame</a> as an "innovator"<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2013 Honoris Causa (honorary degree) by <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Hern%C3%A1ndez_University_of_Elche" title="Miguel Hernández University of Elche">Miguel Hernández University</a> (Alicante, Spain)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2019 ACM <a href="/wiki/Software_System_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Software System Award">Software System Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-acm-awards_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acm-awards-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Requests_for_Comments_(RFCs)"><span id="Requests_for_Comments_.28RFCs.29"></span>Requests for Comments (RFCs)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Requests for Comments (RFCs)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>RFC 1035 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification, November 1987</li> <li>RFC 1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities, November 1987</li> <li>RFC 973 - Domain System Changes and Observations, January 1986 (obsoleted by 1034 and 1035)</li> <li>RFC 883 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification, November 1983 (updated by 973, obsoleted by 1034 and 1035)</li> <li>RFC 882 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities, November 1983 (updated by 973, obsoleted by 1034 and 1035)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Mockapetris&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ISINames-2003-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ISINames-2003_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www3.isi.edu/news/story/54">"ISI Names Dr. Paul Mockapetris Visiting Scholar"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120826032920/http://www3.isi.edu/about-news_story.htm?s=54">Archived</a> 2012-08-26 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 27 March 2003</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BiologyDaily-2006-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BiologyDaily-2006_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://biosphere.biologydaily.com/biology/Paul_Mockapetris">"Paul Mockapetris"</a>, <i>Biology Daily</i>, 19 August 2006</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/97awds.html#3">"Personal Achievement – Network Engineering: Paul Mockapetris for DNS Design and Implementation"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011450/http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/97awds.html">Archived</a> 2007-09-28 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, John C. 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title="Tan Tin Wee">Tan Tin Wee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Banks" title="Karen Banks">Karen Banks</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gihan_Dias&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gihan Dias (page does not exist)">Gihan Dias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anriette_Esterhuysen" title="Anriette Esterhuysen">Anriette Esterhuysen</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Goldstein_(NSF)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Steve Goldstein (NSF) (page does not exist)">Steve Goldstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teus_Hagen" title="Teus Hagen">Teus Hagen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ida_Holz" title="Ida Holz">Ida Holz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_Qiheng" title="Hu Qiheng">Qiheng Hu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruhisa_Ishida" title="Haruhisa Ishida">Haruhisa Ishida</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barry_Leiner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barry Leiner (page does not exist)">Barry Leiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sadowsky" title="George Sadowsky">George Sadowsky</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dai_Davies_(internet_pioneer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dai Davies (internet pioneer) (page does not exist)">Dai Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demi_Getschko" title="Demi Getschko">Demi Getschko</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Masaki_Hirabaru&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masaki Hirabaru (page does not exist)">Masaki Hirabaru</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Erik_Huizer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Erik Huizer (page does not exist)">Erik 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