Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in 1983 in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. Jump to: navigation, search The Domain Name System (DNS) is a system that stores information associated with domain names in a distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ... Jump to: navigation, search The University of Southern California (also known as USC, SC, Southern California, and Southern Cal), Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ...

He had recognised the problem in the early Internet (then ARPAnet) of holding name to address translations in a single table on a single host, and instead proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as we have it today. Together with Jon Postel, he is acknowledged as the inventor of DNS. Jump to: navigation, search ARPANET logical map, March 1977. ... Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ...

Mockapetris received two bachelor's degrees (in Physics and in Electrical Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1971, and his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 1982. Jump to: navigation, search The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a widely renowned leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including engineering systems, management, economics, linguistics, political science... Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science ... Jump to: navigation, search University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1978, Mockapetris joined ISI, where he later created the first SMTP email server. In 1981, he published an article in EE Times, in which he correctly predicted that widespread deployment of multitasking operating systems would be a prerequisite for the widespread use of computer networks. Jump to: navigation, search 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... ISI may stand for: Ice Skating Institute (formerly the Ice Skating Instute of America, or ISIA), the international governing body for recreational skating competitions Indian Statistical Institute Information Sciences Institute (USC) Institute for Scientific Information Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan) Intersymbol interference Import substitution industrializing As well... Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ... A mail transfer agent or MTA (also called a mail server, or a mail exchange server in the context of the Domain Name System) is a computer program or software agent that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computing, multitasking is a method by which multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any point in time, meaning...

After writing RFCs 882 and 883, he wrote the first DNS implementation (called "Jeeves") for the TOPS-20 operating system in 1983. Mockapetris coordinated the first three DNS servers, which were at ISI and SRI. His implementation of DNS was running on all the Internet DNS root servers by 1986. Jump to: navigation, search The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC was the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Sri or Shri (Devanagari श्री, official IAST transliteration Śrī), —pronounced halfway between sree and shree—is a Sanskrit title of veneration, a Hindu honorific stemming from the Vedic conception of prosperity (see Lakshmi below). ... A root nameserverzz is a DNS server that answers requests for the root namespace domain, and redirects requests for a particular top-level domain to that TLDs nameservers. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He served as chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) (1994 – 1995/1995) after having chaired several IETF working groups, and has also chaired the Research Working Group of the U.S. Federal Networking Council. He was a member of the Defense Messaging System Advisory Council, and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ...

Mockapetris has also worked as the program manager for networking at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (1990 – 1993), and for the Internet-related companies @Home (1995 – 1997), Software.com (1997 – 1998) (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco) / Verent / Siara (now Redback Networks) (1998 – 1999), Urban Media (1999 – 2001), NU Domain (from 1999), and Nominum (from 1999) where is now board chairman. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ... The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ...

On March 31, 2003, he rejoined ISI as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Postel Center for Experimental Networking (PCEN) Computer Networks Division. Jump to: navigation, search March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mockapetris received the 1997 John C. Dvorak Telecommunications Excellence Award "Personal Achievement - Network Engineering" for DNS design and implementation, the 2003 IEEE Internet Award for his contributions to DNS, and the Distinguished Alumnus award from the University of California, Irvine. Jump to: navigation, search John C. Dvorak John C. Dvorak is a well known columnist on technology, specifically that relating to computing. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ...

In May 2005 he received the ACM Sigcomm lifetime award. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in May May 26: Eddie Albert May 25: Ismail Merchant May 25: Sunil Dutt May 25: Graham Kennedy May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft May 21: Howard Morris May 21: Subodh Mukherjee May 21: Stephen Elliott May 20... SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks. ...

References

• "ISI Names Dr. Paul Mockapetris Visiting Scholar"
• History from Nominum
• Article by Dr. Paul Mockapetris "Letting DNS Loose"
• Article on Dr. Paul Mockapetris
• Email profiling Dr. Paul Mockapetris
• Page of DNS history
• 1997 Dvorak award

External links

• Page about Dr. Paul Mockapetris

Some RFCs by Dr. Mockapetris

• RFC 1035 Domain System Changes and Observations
• RFC 1034 Domain Implementation and Specification
• Obsoleted RFCs:
  • RFC 973 Domain System Changes and Observations
  • RFC 883 Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
  • RFC 882 Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities