EVENT

Keynote Talks

Paul Vixie, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)

TITLE
History of Network Reputation, from RBL to RPZ: Lessons so far of MAPS and COICA

ABSTRACT
Mail Abuse Prevention System Real-time Blackhole List (MAPS RBL) was created in 1996, using DNS in order to publish and consume reputation information about IP addresses used for transmitting electronic mail.
The ISC Response Policy Zone (RPZ) was established in 2010, using DNS in order to publish and consume reputation information about DNS names and responses.
In this presentation, Paul Vixie will compare the purpose and design of these two systems, describing the features in RPZ Format 2 that were added as a result of market feedback in RPZ's first year.

BIO
Paul Vixie has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980. Early in his career, he developed and introduced sends, proxynet, rtty, cron and other lesser-known tools. Paul is considered the primary modern author and technical architect of BIND8, the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Version 8, which has since been replaced by BIND9 as the Internet's dominant open source reference implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS).

Paul Vixie founded ISC with Rick Adams in 1994 and was ISC President/CEO until early 2011. In his current role as Chairman and Chief Scientist, Paul ensures that ISC stays true to his original mission of developing and maintaining production quality open source reference implementations of core Internet protocols, such as BIND and DHCP, and evolving those standards. In 1995, Paul co-founded PAIX (Palo Alto Internet Exchange), which was sold to AboveNet in 1999, who in turn named Paul its Chief Technology Officer in 2000, and then President of the PAIX subsidiary in 2001. Paul also co-founded MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System), a California not-for-profit company established in 1998 with the goal of stopping the Internet's email system from being abused by spammers.

Since 2005 Paul has served on the ARIN Board of Trustees and served as Chairman in 2009 and 2010.
Along with Frederick Avolio, Paul co-wrote "Sendmail: Theory and Practice" (Digital Press, 1995). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen RFCs, mostly on DNS and related topics. He is a member of ICANN RSSAC and ICANN SSAC, and a frequent participant in IETF and NANOG.

Paul Mockapetris, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Nominum

TITLE
The History, Present, and Future of Evolution in the DNS

BIO
Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Inc. His mission is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage.

Paul created DNS in the 1980s at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, where he was later the Director of ISI’s High Performance Computing and Communications Division.

Throughout his career, Paul has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at UC Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs.

At ISI, after working on the design and initial implementation of the SMTP protocol for email as part of the birth of the Internet in 1983, Paul took on the challenge of designing DNS, and then operated the original “root servers” for all Internet names. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original Internet Standards. The IETF continues to be the focus of new applications and extensions to DNS. Paul has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996.

Paul was program manager for networking at ARPA in the early 1990s, supervising efforts such as gigabit and optical networking. From 1995 on, Paul held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks). Paul’s mission at Nominum is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage.

Paul has dual B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.