Paul Hoffman is a Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

-based Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 pioneer.

Hoffman has been involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...

 (IETF) since the early 1990s, is current chair of the IETF ipsecme working group, and has chaired numerous working groups in the past. He is the founder of the Internet Mail Consortium and the Virtual Private Network Consortium.

He has authored popular books on technical topics, including Perl for Dummies and Netscape Communicator for Dummies.
Additionally, he is the author of the following RFCs

Request for Comments

In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...

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• RFC2311
• RFC2312
• RFC2368
• RFC2487
• RFC2585
• RFC2634
• RFC2781
• RFC2987
• RFC3207
• RFC3233
• RFC3454
• RFC3490
• RFC3491
• RFC3536
• RFC3664
• RFC3854
• RFC3855
• RFC4109
• RFC4134
• RFC4156
• RFC4157
• RFC4249
• RFC4266
• RFC4270
• RFC4308
• RFC4434
• RFC4677
• RFC4718
• RFC4894
• RFC5518

External links

• Proper Publishing
• LookIt Weblog