Editing Paul Vixie (section)

==Career==
Vixie worked on BIND<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.16.20/history.html |title=A Brief History of the DNS and BIND — BIND 9 documentation |access-date=2024-01-01 |archive-date=2024-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101104117/https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.16.20/history.html |url-status=live }}</ref> as a software engineer at [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) from 1988 to 1993.<ref name=Linkedin /> After he left DEC in 1994,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://seltzerbooks.com/internethistory.html |title=Internet History |access-date=2024-01-01 |archive-date=2024-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101104116/https://seltzerbooks.com/internethistory.html |url-status=live }}</ref> he founded [[Internet Systems Consortium|Internet Software Consortium]] (ISC) in 1996<ref name=Linkedin /> together with [[Rick Adams (Internet pioneer)|Rick Adams]] and [[Carl Malamud]] to support BIND and other software for the [[Internet]]. The activities of ISC were assumed by a new company, [[Internet Systems Consortium]] in 2004. Although ISC operates the F [[root name server]], Vixie at one point joined the [[Open Root Server Network]] (ORSN) project and operated their L root server.

In 1995 he cofounded the [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]] Internet Exchange ([[PAIX]]) and, after Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) bought it in 1999, served as the chief technology officer to MFN / [[AboveNet]] and later as the president of PAIX.<ref name="bloomberg">[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=606464&privcapId=12677974 Executive Profile: Paul Vixie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234228/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=606464&privcapId=12677974 |date=2018-06-13 }}, Bloomberg (accessed 25 March 2017).</ref>

In 1998 he cofounded [[Mail Abuse Prevention System]] (MAPS), a [[California]] non-profit company with the goal of stopping [[Email spam|email abuse]].

Vixie is the author of several [[Request for Comments]] (RFC)s, including a Best Current Practice document on "Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation" (BCP 20),<ref name="bloomberg" /> and some [[Unix]] software. He stated in 2002 that he "now hold[s] the record for 'most [[CERT Coordination Center|CERT]] advisories due to a single author.'"<ref>{{cite web | last=Vixie | first=Paul | title=Re: Malformed SNMP Packet log/trace | work=North American Network Operations Group mailing list | date=2002-02-26 | url=http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/0202/msg00482.html | access-date=2007-03-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030320132053/http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/0202/msg00482.html | archive-date=2003-03-20 | quote=note that i hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.}}</ref><ref name="Graff-Wyk">{{cite book |last=Graff |first=Mark G. |author2=Kenneth R. van Wyk |title=Secure Coding: Principles and Practices |url=https://archive.org/details/securecodingprin0000graf |url-access=registration |year=2003 |publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=978-0-596-00242-8 |pages="Advance Praise" section |quote=If this book had existed when I was learning C in the early 1980s, then I might not now hold the record for 'most CERT advisories due to a single author.' Anyone who wants a coding job at ISC in the future should be prepared to demonstrate that they have read and understand ''Secure Coding''. }}</ref>

In 2008, Vixie served as a judge for the [[Mozilla Foundation]]'s "Download Day", an attempt to set a [[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Record]] for most downloads in a single day for a new piece of software.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq |title=Paul Vixie listed as a judge on the Firefox 3 2008 Download Day |access-date=2008-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530232419/http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq |archive-date=2008-05-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Vixie served on the board of trustees of the [[American Registry for Internet Numbers]] (ARIN) from 2005 to 2013, and served as chairman in 2009 and 2010.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot_former.html| title = Former Members of the Board of Trustees| access-date = 2014-01-13| archive-date = 2021-04-17| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210417210755/https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot_former.html| url-status = live}}</ref> Vixie also serves on the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of [[ICANN]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/| title = SSAC Membership| access-date = 2011-08-25| archive-date = 2012-01-22| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120122064353/http://www.icann.org/en/committees/security/| url-status = live}}</ref>

He received a Ph.D. in computer science from [[Keio University]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://plus.google.com/106684394261860468438/about| title = Google+ Profile| access-date = 2011-08-25| archive-date = 2016-03-11| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160311004704/https://plus.google.com/106684394261860468438/about| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/paul-vixie/ |title=Paul Vixie - Internet Hall of Fame |access-date=2024-01-01 |archive-date=2024-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101104115/https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/paul-vixie/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2013, after nearly 20 years at ISC, he founded a new company,  Farsight Security, Inc. spinning off the Security Business Unit from ISC.<ref name="farsight">{{cite web | url=http://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-spins-off-its-security-business-unit/ | title=ISC Spins Off Its Security Business Unit | date=2 July 2013 | publisher=Internet Systems Consortium | access-date=2013-07-11 | archive-date=2013-07-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709014026/http://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-spins-off-its-security-business-unit/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2014, Vixie was inducted into the [[Internet Hall of Fame]] as an Innovator.<ref name="ihof">{{cite web | url=http://internethalloffame.org/blog/2014/04/08/internet-hall-fame-announces-2014-inductees | title=Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Inductees | date=8 April 2014 | publisher=ISOC | access-date=2014-04-08 | archive-date=2014-04-08 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408214115/http://internethalloffame.org/blog/2014/04/08/internet-hall-fame-announces-2014-inductees | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2021, Vixie's company FarSight Security was acquired by DomainTools.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dz4LQ5XcoI |title=DNS Encryption Webinar: Paul Vixie (Farsight Security) and Peter Lowe (DNSFilter) on DNS-over-HTTPS |date=2021-11-18 |last=DNSFilter |access-date=2024-08-07 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Since 2022, he has been working at AWS.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Defining the Role of Distinguished Engineers {{!}} AWS Executive Insights |url=https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/defining-the-role-of-distinguished-engineers/ |access-date=2024-08-07 |website=Amazon Web Services, Inc. |language=en-US}}</ref>