David L. Mills
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David L. Mills (born June 3, 1938) was the first chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first FTP implementation. He has also authored numerous requests for comment. In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Currently, Mills is a professor at the University of Delaware.
Mills is an amateur radio operator, callsign W3HCF.