Steve Crocker
Stephen D. Crocker | |
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Born | October 15, 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Internet engineer |
Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944) is an Internet pioneer. In 1969, he created the ARPA "Networking Working Group" and the Request for Comments series. He served as chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2011 through 2017.[1][2][3]
Education
Steve Crocker attended
Career
He has worked in the Internet community since its inception. He was instrumental in creating the ARPA "Network Working Group" and the instigator of the Request for Comment (RFC) series,[5] authoring the first RFC[6] and many more.[7] As a UCLA graduate student in the 1960s, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET which were the foundation for today's Internet.[8]
While at UCLA Crocker taught an extension course on computer programming (for the
Crocker has been a program manager at
The Networking Working Group RFC's provided the context in which the
Awards
For his work on the Internet, Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award.[12] In 2012, Crocker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.[13]
See also
References
- ^ "ICANN news release". June 2011.
- ^ Crocker, Steve (October 20, 2017). "About the Board". ICANN Blogs. ICANN.
- ^ White, Brad (November 2017). "Wrap-Up Interview with Cherine Chalaby and Steve Crocker" (PDF). ICANN60 Newsletter. ICANN.
- ^ Matthew Lyon (Fall 1997). "Wired!". UCLA Magazine.
- ^ "I Remember IANA", V. Cerf, RFC 2468, October 17, 1998.
- . Unknown.
- ^ "RFC Index", Internet Engineering Task Force. Retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ "Official Biography: Steve Crocker", Internet Hall of Fame, Internet Society, retrieved September 14, 2013.
- ^ Parallelus. "Steve Crocker, Ph.D." Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "hjp: doc: RFC 1898: CyberCash Credit Card Protocol Version 0.8". www.hjp.at. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "Shinkuro". July 23, 2002. Archived from the original on July 23, 2002.
- IEEE. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
- ^ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012
External links
Media related to Steve Crocker at Wikimedia Commons
- S. Crocker, ed. (April 7, 1969). Host Software. Network Working Group. . Unknown.
- S. Crocker (April 1, 1995). The Address is the Message. Network Working Group. .
- Shinkuro.com executive team info
- Oral history interview with Stephen Crocker, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); interactions with other DARPA personnel including Cordell Green, Barry Wessler, Larry Roberts, Bob Kahn, and David Russell. He discusses his work as a program manager in the Information Processing Techniques Office(IPTO).