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Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944) is an American Internet pioneer. In 1969, he created the ARPA "Network 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.
Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the Internet.
May 18, 2012 · Steve Crocker: October. The very first attempt to get some communication between our machine, a Sigma 7, and [Douglas] Engelbart's machine, an SDS-940, at SRI. Famously, it crashed.
Steve Crocker. Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer. Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and the deployment of improved security protocols.
Dr. Steve Crocker is the President of Edgemoor Research Institute, Co-Founder and CEO of Shinkuro, Inc., the former Chair and 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.
Apr 7, 2019 · Learn how Steve Crocker wrote the first RFC in 1969 to document how packets were sent in the early ARPANET. RFCs are open standards that define how the Internet works and enable innovation and collaboration.
Mar 19, 2024 · Learn how these innovators developed the technologies and protocols that made the internet possible. They share their reflections on the internet's origins, impact and challenges in an era of misinformation and disinformation.
