Paul Mockapetris

     Paul V. Mockapetris, born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who, together with Jon Postel, invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). Mockapetris graduated from the prestigious Boston Latin School in 1966, received his bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and his doctorate in information and computer science from the University of California at Irvine in 1982. In 1983, he proposed Domain Name System architecture in RFC 882and RFC 883. He had recognized the problem in the early Internet of holding name to address translations in a single table on a single host, and instead proposed a distributed and dynamic DNS database: essentially DNS as it exists today.
     Rather than simply looking up host names, DNS created easily identifiable names for IP addresses, making the Internet far more accessible for everyday use. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original Internet Standards.