John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,the Cypher punks mailing list and Cygnus Solutions.He created the hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project.An outspoken civil libertarian,Gilmore has sued the Federal Aviation Administration,Department of Justice and others.
He was the plaintiff in the prominent case Gilmore v.Gonzales,challenging secret travel-restriction laws.He is also an advocate for drug policy reform.He co-authored the Bootstrap Protocol in 1985,which evolved into DHCP the primary way local networks assign devices an IP address.
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