David L. Mills (born June 3, 1938) was the first head of the Internet Architecture Board. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first FTP implementation. He has also authored numerous requests for comment. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ... The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronising the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. ... Fuzzball routers were the first modern routers on the Internet. ... The Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) is a routing protocol for the Internet originally specified in 1982 by Eric C. Rosen of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, and David L. Mills. ... The abbreviation FTP can refer to: The File Transfer Protocol used on the Internet. ... Alternate meaning: Wikipedia:Requests for comment A Request for Comments (RFC) document is one of a series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards very widely followed by both commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. ...
Currently, Mills is a professor at the University of Delaware. The University of Delaware (UD OR UDel) is the largest university in the state of Delaware. ...
Mills is an amateur radio operator, callsign W3HCF. To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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