Dr. Stephen (Steve) D. Crocker, CEO, Shinkuro, Inc.

and Chair, ICANN's Security and

Stability Advisory Committee

steve@shinkuro.com

Visit by Steve Crocker to ISOC India Chennai on August 20.

Dr. Steve Crocker Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., an Internet
research and development company building tools for cooperation and
collaboration across the Internet and government sponsored projects in Internet
security. He is co-chair of the DNSSEC Deployment Working Group, chair of
ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee and serves as a Liaison on the
ICANN Board.
Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960’s
and early 1970’s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team
that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today’s
Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of
the modern Internet Engineering Task Force, initiated the Request for Comments
(RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared,
and laid the foundation for the open architectural structure of the Internet
Protocols. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award..
He remained active in the Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB and
served as the first security area director on the Internet Engineering Steering Group
from 1989 to 1994. He has served as a board member of ISOC and has held
numerous other Internet-related volunteer positions.

Dr. Crocker experience includes research management at DARPA, USC's Information

Sciences Institute. He has been founder and director of the Computer Science
Laboratory at The Aerospace Corporation and a vice president at Trusted
Information Systems. In 1994, Crocker was one of the founders and chief technology
officer of CyberCash, Inc. In 1998, he founded and ran Executive DSL, a DSL-based
ISP. In 1999 he cofounded and was CEO of Longitude Systems. He is currently CEO
of Shinkuro, a research and development company.

Dr. Crocker earned his BA in math and PhD in computer science at UCLA, and
studied artificial intelligence at MIT.

A meeting is planned on 20th August evening. Venue and other details to be

announced later. Please email isocindiachennai@gmail.com for an invitation.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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