Paul Mockapetris is best known as the creator of the Domain Name System (DNS), and wrote the first implementation of SMTP, the Internet’s mail protocol . At present, he is a board member and Chief Scientist at ThreatSTOP, a realtime threat prevention service.
He was chair of an ICANN Strategic Panel, Chief Scientist and board member of Nominum, CTO at Urban Media, Siara, Fiberlane, and Software.com and director of engineering at @Home. He has been IETF chair, program manager at ARPA, and did 15 years of research at the USC Information Sciences Institute an 10 years at UC Irvine.
