John Gilmore (born 1955) is an American activist who is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet, is a major contributor to the GNU Project, and co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol in 1985, which evolved into the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, the primary way local networks assign an IP address to devices.
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