Steve Crocker

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Steve Crocker is an American computer scientist best known for initiating and authoring the first Request for Comments (RFC) documents that shaped the early Internet’s protocols and standards.


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instanceOf American
computer scientist
engineer
human
academicDegree PhD in computer science
awardReceived IEEE Internet Award
Internet Hall of Fame induction
birthDate 1944-10-15
birthPlace Pasadena
surface form: Pasadena, California, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt University of California, Los Angeles
surface form: UCLA

University of California, Los Angeles
employer Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
surface form: ICANN
familyName Crocker
fieldOfWork Internet standards
computer networking
computer science
genre technical standards documents
givenName Steven
surface form: Steve
hasGender male
honorificTitle Internet pioneer
influenced Internet protocol design practices
development of Internet standards processes
involvedIn ARPANET development
design of early Internet protocols
knownFor authoring the first RFC
contributions to early ARPANET protocols
initiating the Request for Comments (RFC) series
languageSpoken English
livesIn United States of America
memberOf Internet Engineering Task Force community
ISOC
surface form: Internet Society community
name Steve Crocker self-link
notableRole helping define the RFC process for Internet standards
notableWork RFCs
surface form: Request for Comments (RFC) series
occupation computer scientist
engineer
technology executive
partOf early ARPANET research community
positionHeld Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors
Member of the ICANN Board of Directors
workLocation Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States

Washington, D.C.
surface form: Washington, D.C., United States
wrote RFC 1
early ARPANET RFC documents

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RFCs createdBy Steve Crocker
subject surface form: RFC
Steve Crocker name Steve Crocker self-link
Network Working Group notableMember Steve Crocker