Domain name system creator receives lifetime award
3 June 2005
ACM Sigcomm has presented the man credited with creating the Domain Name System (DNS) with a lifetime achievement award.
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates web addresses into numbers for routers and was created 22 years ago by Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum.
Dr Mockapetris developed the system while at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. He also designed the first implementation of the internet's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), now used for email, and chaired the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 1994 to 1996.
Sigcomm (Special Interest Group on Data Communication) is the Association for Computing Machinery's professional forum for computer network specialists and the prestigious awards recognise outstanding contributions to the technical development of data and computer communications.
"It's a tremendous honour to be recognised by ACM Sigcomm and to stand alongside its other distinguished recipients," said Dr Mockapetris. "It is especially poignant to receive this award at a time when the internet is impacting on society like never before."
"The Domain Name System (DNS) lies at the heart of every user experience with the internet," added Jennifer Rexford, chair of ACM Sigcomm. "ACM Sigcomm is proud to recognise Dr Paul Mockapetris for his foundational work in designing and developing DNS, and for the important role he has played in the development of the internet architecture."
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