Nominum (www.nominum.com), a leading provider of IP address management infrastructure solutions, announced on June 1 that its chief scientist Paul Mockapetris, who is widely credited with creating the Domain Name System (DNS) 22 years ago, is the 2005 recipient of the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM lifetime award. The ACM SIGCOMM award was initiated in 1989 as a means of honoring computer and communication professionals for outstanding technical achievement in the fields of data and computer communications. The award will be presented on 24 August at the banquet dinner of the annual SIGCOMM conference in Philadelphia.
Jennifer Rexford, Chair of ACM SIGCOMM, said that the Domain Name System (DNS) lies at the heart of every user experience with the Internet, and that ACM SIGCOMM is proud to recognize Dr. Paul Mockapetris for his foundational work in designing and developing DNS, and for the important role he has played in the development of the Internet architecture.
Paul Mockapetris said that it's a tremendous honor to be recognized by ACM SIGCOMM and to stand alongside its other distinguished recipients, that it is especially poignant to receive this award at a time when the Internet is impacting on society like never before, and that while the Internet has come a long way there is still much to do in terms of making the network more useful and secure.
