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Paul Vixie
Academic

Paul Vixie

American internet pioneer (born 1963)

Life
1963 – present
Born
May 23, 1963
Nationality
United States

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. He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service. He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his ow

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