Paul Hoffman (engineer) explained

Paul E. Hoffman is an Internet pioneer, 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 and the Virtual Private Network Consortium. He is currently a technologist at ICANN.

Writer

He has authored popular books on technical topics, including Perl for Dummies^[1] and Netscape Communicator for Dummies.^[2]

RFCs

He is the author of the following Requests for Comments (RFCs):

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
RFC5895	RFC5911	RFC5912	RFC5996	RFC6014	RFC6194
RFC6292	RFC6293	RFC6322	RFC6358	RFC6365	RFC6433
RFC6452	RFC6605	RFC6698	RFC6722	RFC6927	RFC7049
RFC7085	RFC7296	RFC7321	RFC7386	RFC7396	RFC7486
RFC7706	RFC7719	RFC7858	RFC7958	RFC7791	RFC7792
RFC7798	RFC8109	RFC8145	RFC8162

See also

• List of RFCs

Notes and References

1. Book: Hoffman, Paul E.. Perl for Dummies. 978-0-7645-3750-9. For Dummies. March 2003.
2. Book: Hoffman, Paul E.. Netscape Communicator for Dummies. 978-0-7645-0324-5. Hungry Minds. December 1998. registration.