Paul E. Hoffman is an
Internet pioneer
Instead of having a single "inventor", the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following are some Internet pioneers who contributed to its early and ongoing development. These include early theoretical foundations, specifyi ...
, based in
Santa Cruz, California.
Hoffman has been involved with the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the early 1990s, and has chaired numerous IETF working groups. He was the founder of the
Internet Mail Consortium
The Internet Mail Consortium (IMC) was an organization between 1996 and 2002 that claimed to be the only international organization focused on cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet. The ...
and the
Virtual Private Network Consortium. He is currently a technologist at
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...
.
Writer
He has authored popular books on technical topics, including ''Perl for Dummies'' and ''Netscape Communicator for Dummies''.
RFCs
He is the author of the following
Requests for Comments (RFCs):
See also
*
List of RFCs
References
Living people
Writers from California
People from Santa Cruz, California
Year of birth missing (living people)
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