Dave Crocker: Difference between revisions

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Country:	USA
Email:	dcrocker[at]bbiw.net
Website:	[dcrocker.net dcrocker.net]
LinkedIn:	[Dave Crocker Dave Crocker]

David H. Crocker is a Senior Advisor at Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group and Participant at IETF. He is also self employed working under the company name Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and system architectures.^[1]

From 1989 to 1991, he worked as the Manager of Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp. Prior to which, he was the Vice President of Engineering at The Wollongong Group, Inc. He has also held the position of Development Manager at Ungermann-Bass, Inc. and has worked as the Director of System Development at MCI Digital Information Services Corp. He started his career working as the Co-Principal Investigator, Electrical Engineering at University of Delaware.^[2]

Internet Industry

He has been the Area director for the IETF from 1989-1993.

He participated in the effort to standardize facsimile over Internet and electronic data interchange over the Internet.

He has Chaired and Presented at Several conferences which include:

N+I Interop
Electronic Messaging Association
APRICOT
RIPE
EMail World
Unix Expo

Presenter of numerous classes on the Internet, TCP/IP and open systems networking Author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail and electronic commerce. Chaired, Silicon Valley–Public Access Link, a volunteer-run community information service provider; continue on its Board.

In 2004, he got the IEEE Internet Award.^[3]

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 '''David H. Crocker''' is a Senior Advisor at  [[MAAWG|Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group]] and Participant at [[IETF]]. He is also self employed working under the company name Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and system architectures.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref>
-Manager, Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp
+From 1989 to 1991, he worked as the Manager of  Network Systems Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp. Prior to which, he was the Vice President of Engineering at The Wollongong Group, Inc. He has also held the position of Development Manager at Ungermann-Bass, Inc. and has worked as the Director of System Development at [[MCI Digital Information Services Corp.]] He started his career working as the Co-Principal Investigator, Electrical Engineering at University of Delaware.<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrokcer.net]</ref>
+== Internet Industry ==
+He has been the Area director for the [[IETF]] from 1989-1993.
-He worked in the ARPA network research community during the 1970s, and led product development efforts at MCI and various Silicon Valley companies, during the 1980s. He then founded several startup companies, serving as CEO for one. Dave developed and operated two national email services, designed two others, and was CEO of a community non-profit [[ISP]]. His senior management product efforts cover email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for [[TCP/IP]] and [[OSI]], network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support.
+He participated in the effort to standardize facsimile over Internet and [[EDI|electronic data interchange]] over the Internet.
-Dave has a B.A. in psychology from UCLA, M.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and he studied computer science at the University of Delaware.
+He has Chaired and Presented at Several conferences which include:
-Dave has authored and contributed to Internet standards for thirty-five years, covering Internet mail, instant messaging, facsimile and EDI. He has also contributed to work on Internet security, ecommerce, domain name service, emergency services, and even some TCP and IP enhancements. He has authored more than 45 IETF RFCs. Dave served as an Area Director for the Internet Engineering Task Force, variously overseeing network management, middleware and the IETF standards process. For his work on email, Dave is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet Award.
+*N+I Interop
+*Electronic Messaging Association
+*APRICOT
+*RIPE
+*EMail World
+*Unix Expo
-Dave is active with anti-abuse efforts for DKIM, and BATV, as underpinnings for evolution to a trusted email infrastructure. While at Digital Equipment Corporation, Dave initiated an internally funded project for open enhancement of the then-problematic BIND software used by DNS servers. Dave has been active in DNS policy work. Jon Postel named him as a member of the IAHC and he was editor of its proposal to add more top-level domains to the DNS. Its recommendations formed the basis of the eventual enhancements to domain name administration. Dave also was active in the ICANN Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency.
+Presenter of numerous classes on the Internet, TCP/IP and open systems networking
+Author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail and electronic commerce.
+Chaired, Silicon Valley–Public Access Link, a volunteer-run community information service provider; continue on its Board.
-Dave and Steve Crocker are brothers. Steve Crocker went to the same high-school as Jon Postel and Vinton Cerf. At MCI, Dave worked for Vint.
+In 2004, he got the [[IEEE Internet Award]].<ref>[http://www.dcrocker.net/resume.html dcrocker.net]</ref>
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