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'''Dr. Crocker''' is the Co-Founder and CEO of [[Shinkuro]], Inc., the current Vice-Chair of the [[ICANN Board]], an Internet pioneer, an early leader of [[ISOC]] and the [[IETF]], and the creator of the [[RFC]] document series.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/crocker.htm ICANN.org]</ref><ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 tools.ietf.org]</ref> | '''Dr. Crocker''' is the Co-Founder and CEO of [[Shinkuro]], Inc., the current Vice-Chair of the [[ICANN Board]], an Internet pioneer, an early leader of [[ISOC]] and the [[IETF]], and the creator of the [[RFC]] document series.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/crocker.htm ICANN.org]</ref><ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 tools.ietf.org]</ref> | ||
==Internet Pioneer== | ==Internet Pioneer== | ||
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Steve Crocker was a graduate student at UCLA in the late 1960s and early 70s, and along with [[Vinton Cerf]] and [[Jon Postel]],<ref>[http://www.alpha.geek.nz/ Alpha.geek.nz]</ref> was part of the team that developed the protocols for the [[ARPAnet]].<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/crocker.htm ICANN.org]</ref> Steve was the humble man who wrote the first [[RFC]], or Request For Comments, a document series began wherein questions and answers to the pressing technical issues were presented to and by the entire engineering and infrastructural community. Dr. Crocker labeled the first memo as such as he did not want to seem presumptuous or authoritative, but rather facilitate discussion and progress within the community.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html NYT.com]</ref> The first RFC was published April 6th, 1969; and it can be read [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 here], Steve's retrospection on the beginning of the series on its 40th anniversary can be read [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html here]. | Steve Crocker was a graduate student at UCLA in the late 1960s and early 70s, and along with [[Vinton Cerf]] and [[Jon Postel]],<ref>[http://www.alpha.geek.nz/ Alpha.geek.nz]</ref> was part of the team that developed the protocols for the [[ARPAnet]].<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/crocker.htm ICANN.org]</ref> Steve was the humble man who wrote the first [[RFC]], or Request For Comments, a document series began wherein questions and answers to the pressing technical issues were presented to and by the entire engineering and infrastructural community. Dr. Crocker labeled the first memo as such as he did not want to seem presumptuous or authoritative, but rather facilitate discussion and progress within the community.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html NYT.com]</ref> The first RFC was published April 6th, 1969; and it can be read [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 here], Steve's retrospection on the beginning of the series on its 40th anniversary can be read [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07crocker.html here]. | ||
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Dr. Crocker attended the same highschool in southern California as both [[Jon Postel]] and [[Vint Cerf]].<ref>[http://vint-cerf.co.tv/ Vint-Cert.co.tv]</ref> | |||
==Current Work== | ==Current Work== | ||
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Dr. Crocker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shinkuro, Inc., the current Vice-Chair of the ICANN Board, an Internet pioneer, an early leader of ISOC and the IETF, and the creator of the RFC document series.[1][2]
Internet Pioneer[edit | edit source]
RFC[edit | edit source]
Steve Crocker was a graduate student at UCLA in the late 1960s and early 70s, and along with Vinton Cerf and Jon Postel,[3] was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPAnet.[4] Steve was the humble man who wrote the first RFC, or Request For Comments, a document series began wherein questions and answers to the pressing technical issues were presented to and by the entire engineering and infrastructural community. Dr. Crocker labeled the first memo as such as he did not want to seem presumptuous or authoritative, but rather facilitate discussion and progress within the community.[5] The first RFC was published April 6th, 1969; and it can be read here, Steve's retrospection on the beginning of the series on its 40th anniversary can be read here.
Beginning[edit | edit source]
Dr. Crocker attended the same highschool in southern California as both Jon Postel and Vint Cerf.[6]
Current Work[edit | edit source]
ICANN[edit | edit source]
Steve Crocker has been involved in both the Internet and ICANN since their beginnings. He has been the chair of ICANN's SSAC since its creation in 2002, and had been serving as the SSAC's non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board until he was selected by the NomCom to serve as a voting member. He was selected by the NomCom in 2008, and his current term concludes at the end of the 2011 annual meeting. Following the annual meeting of 2010, Steve was elected as Vice-Chair of the ICANN Board.[7]
Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also on the board of The Internet Society and he is a volunteer Senior Counselor in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer in the District of Columbia, focusing on the District's creation of a new technology magnet high school.
He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award.
Dr. Crocker's experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc.
Education[edit | edit source]
Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.