Paul Vixie

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 BIND, of which he is the primary author and architect of the release 8.

After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded the Internet Software Consortium (ISC, which in 2004 was renamed Internet Systems Consortium) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other programs for the Internet.

In 1995 he cofounded the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), and after Abovenet bought it in 1999 he served as the Abovenet Chief Technology Officer and later as the PAIX president.

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, .

Along with Frederick Avolio, he co-wrote the famous book "Sendmail: Theory and Practice".

He appears to have had a role in the JATO Rocket Car urban legend that popularized the Darwin Awards by adding the key text that referred to the (at the time) fictional award.