Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Domain system creator honoured

Via The BBC.

The man largely responsible for developing the system which turns addresses on the web into numbers has received a prestigious award.

Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum, has been given an ACM Sigcomm lifetime award.

He is widely credited with creating the Domain Name System (DNS) 22 years ago
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