Paul Vixie is an American Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.
Vixie attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, California. He received a Ph.D in computer science from Keio University in 2011.
He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.
== Career ==
After he left Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994, he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet...