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Paul Mockapetris

Also Known As Paul V. Mockapetris
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Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist who invented the Internet Domain Name System while at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, which he joined in 1978. He proposed the DNS architecture in RFC 882 and RFC 883 in November 1983, and also developed the first SMTP email server. He later served as program manager for networking at ARPA from 1990 to 1993 and chaired the Internet Engineering Task Force from 1994 to 1996. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1948 1
Birth Date
1948-11-18 1
Nationality
American 1
Award
ACM Fellow 2
Award
IEEE Internet Award 2
Award
Internet Hall of Fame 2
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SIGCOMM Award 2
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ACM Software System Award 2
FAQs

Why was the Domain Name System needed?

A single global host table had reached the limit of manageability by 1983.

Before the Domain Name System, hosts on the ARPA Internet were registered with the Network Information Center and listed in a global table, available as the file HOSTS.TXT. RFC 882, written by Paul Mockapetris and dated November 1983, said that the size of that table and the frequency of its updates were near the limit of manageability. It argued that what was needed was a distributed database performing the same function, which is the approach the Domain Name System took.
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In Field

Computer Networking, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Paul Mockapetris

Invented

Domain Name System, Systems
Source Wikipedia: Paul Mockapetris
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Nationality

United States

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Paul Mockapetris
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  • Achievements
    Mockapetris is a fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Introduction
    Paul V. Mockapetris (born November 18, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
  • In Field: Computer Networking, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Paul Mockapetris
Wikidata Q1140555, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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