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]
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| Email: | dcrocker[at]bbiw.net |
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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 Chaired the Silicon Valley–Public Access Link, of which he is still a board member.
Meetings
Mr. Crocker actively participates in Meetings in the Internet Industry. He has Chaired and Presented at Several conferences which include:
- N+I Interop
- Electronic Messaging Association
- APRICOT
- RIPE
- EMail World
- Unix Expo
He has also taught several classes on Internet, TCP/IP and Open Systems Networking.
Mr. Crocker is often reffered as one of the Inventors and Designer of E-mail. He developed MS, based on the design of MSG, which was the first modern Email sender program. MS was designed for UNIX operating system. Its idea was initiated by Steve Walker, who was then the Program Manager at DAPRA.
Publications
Author of book chapters, magazine articles, presentations and specifications on open systems networking, standards, electronic mail and electronic commerce.
Awards and Honors
In 2004, he got the IEEE Internet Award.[3]