David L. Mills (born June 3, 1938[1]) is an American computer engineer. Mills was the chairman of the GADS Task Force and the first chairman of the Internet Architecture Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, inspired the author of ping[2], and had the first FTP implementation. He has also authored numerous RFCs. In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2002, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 2008, Mills was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Currently, Mills is a professor at the University of Delaware.
Mills is an amateur radio operator, callsign W3HCF.[3][4]
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