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Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working 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 and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet. The activities of Internet Software Consortium were assumed by a new company, Internet Systems Consortium in 2004. In 1995 he cofounded the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), and after Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) bought it in 1999 he served as the MFN Chief Technology Officer and later as the president of PAIX. In 1998 he cofounded MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System), a California nonprofit company with the goal of stopping email abuse. He also used to run his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises. Along with Frederick Avolio, he co-wrote the book Sendmail: Theory and Practice. Paul's nearly 20-year maintenance of BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, arguably the most unheralded (and most mission critical) piece of free software in the world, makes him one of the most important figures in the history of Free and Open Source Software. He was a centerpiece of Tim O'Reilly's 1998 campaign to move the discussion of FOSS away from ideology and towards a realization of its actual business impact. He is also known to hold the record for "most CERT advisories due to a single author". He attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, California. Although he's working for ISC (founded in 1994), the operator of the F root server, he recently decided to join the Open Root Server Network project too.
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