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Steve Crocker

(1944) Computer Scientist United States

9 quotes in 57 categories

Steve Crocker is a computer scientist from the United States.

Quick Facts About Steve Crocker

Born: October 15, 1944
Nationality: United States
Profession: Computer Scientist

About Steve Crocker

Stephen D. Crocker 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

IEEE Internet Award Internet Hall of Fame

Quotes by Steve Crocker

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone…

Convergence

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The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

Important

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The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality…

Efficient

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It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with…

Areas

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E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an…

Also

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We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet…

Clue

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An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

Combination

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Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.

Mass

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The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30…

Grew

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