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'''David Howard Crocker''' is an American network engineer, renowned for his work on email since the early 1970s, when he worked with [[ARPANET]] (which became the technical foundation of the [[Internet]]) while he was an undergraduate student at [[UCLA]].<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Arpanet Users Interest Working Group Meeting |rfc=585 |last1=Crocker| first1=D. |last2=Neigus | first2=N. |last3=Feinler| first3=J. |last4=Iseli | first4=J. |date=6 November 1973 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> He was introduced to the ARPANET work by his brother, [[Steve Crocker]], another [[List of Internet pioneers|pioneer of the Internet]], who created the [[DARPA|ARPA]] Network Working Group and the [[Request for Comments]] (RFC) series of formally published documents in 1969.<!-- Did Dave Crocker attend Van Nuys High School, as did his brother, Vint Cerf and Jon Postel? -->
'''David Howard Crocker''' is an American network engineer, renowned for his work on the development of networked [[email]] since the early 1970s, when he worked with [[ARPANET]] (which became the technical foundation of the [[Internet]]) while he was an undergraduate student at [[UCLA]].<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Arpanet Users Interest Working Group Meeting |rfc=585 |last1=Crocker| first1=D. |last2=Neigus | first2=N. |last3=Feinler| first3=J. |last4=Iseli | first4=J. |date=6 November 1973 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> He was introduced to the ARPANET work by his brother, [[Steve Crocker]], another [[List of Internet pioneers|pioneer of the Internet]], who created the [[DARPA|ARPA]] Network Working Group and the [[Request for Comments]] (RFC) series of formally published documents in 1969.<!-- Did Dave Crocker attend Van Nuys High School, as did his brother, Vint Cerf and Jon Postel? -->


Crocker earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at UCLA in 1975. After obtaining a bachelor's degree, he became a researcher at [[RAND Corporation]] in [[Los Angeles]] while pursuing a master's degree. In 1977 he obtained a Master in Communication Theory and Research at the [[University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism]]. When he graduated in Computer Science at the [[University of Delaware]], in 1982, he had completed his doctoral work on the [[MMDF]], a computer program designed to transmit email.<ref>{{Cite conference | title= An Internetwork Memo Distribution Facility--MMDF |author= Dave Crocker |publisher=Proceedings, Sixth Data Communications Symposium|date= November 1979}}</ref>
Crocker earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[Psychology]] at UCLA in 1975.<ref name=BrandenburgCV/> After obtaining a bachelor's degree, he became a researcher at [[RAND Corporation]] in [[Los Angeles]] while pursuing a master's degree.<ref name=BrandenburgCV/> Following shortly after UCLA, RAND was one of a handful of places that had the earliest nodes of the Internet.<ref>https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/6.7/Network-Measurement-Center-1969-1970/</ref> In 1977 he obtained a [[Master of Arts]] degree at the [[University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism]].<!-- Not sure this was exactly its name at the time. --><ref name=BrandenburgCV/> When he graduated in [[Computer Science]] at the [[University of Delaware]], in 1982, he had completed his doctoral work on the [[MMDF]], a [[message transfer agent]] program for email servers.<ref>{{Cite conference | title= An Internetwork Memo Distribution Facility – MMDF |author= Dave Crocker |work=Proceedings, Sixth Data Communications Symposium|date= November 1979}}</ref>


Crocker was the author of [[RFC 822]], which was published in 1982 to define the format of Internet mail messages,<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages |rfc=822 |author=David H. Crocker |date=13 August 1982 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> and he was the first listed author of the earlier RFC 733 on which it was based in 1977.<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages |rfc=733 |author1=David H. Crocker |author2=John J. Vittal |author3=Kenneth T. Pogran |author4=D. Austin Henderson, Jr |date=21 November 1977 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> By 1974, the year before he obtained his bachelor's degree, he had been listed as an author or credited by name in 15 RFCs (498, 539, 577, 581, 585, 615, 645, and 651 through 658), most of which were focused on email or the [[Telnet]] protocol for [[Client–server model|client/server]] computer terminal communication.<ref>https://bbiw.net/musings.html</ref>
Crocker was the author of [[RFC 822]], which was published in 1982 to define the format of Internet mail messages,<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages |rfc=822 |author=David H. Crocker |date=13 August 1982 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> and he was the first listed author of the earlier RFC 733 on which it was based in 1977.<ref>{{Cite IETF |title=Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages |rfc=733 |author1=David H. Crocker |author2=John J. Vittal |author3=Kenneth T. Pogran |author4=D. Austin Henderson, Jr |date=21 November 1977 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref> By 1974, the year before he obtained his bachelor's degree, he had been listed as an author or credited by name in at least 19 RFCs (351, 352, 462, 498, 539, 560, 577, 581, 585, 615, 645, and 651 through 658), most of which were focused on email or the [[Telnet]] protocol for [[Client–server model|client/server]] computer terminal communication.<ref>https://bbiw.net/musings.html</ref>


He was co-architect and Director of System Development at [[MCI Mail]], where he worked with [[Vint Cerf]] to build a national email service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2007/02/remembering-mci-mail/229502/ |title=Remembering MCI Mail |author=Wade-Hahn Chan |date=26 February 2007 |website=netgov.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm| title=Who Invented Email, Email History, How Email Was Invented| author=<!--Not stated-->}}</ref>{{rs?|reason=No indication of an editorial policy or authorship.|date=August 2024}} He was one of the original IETF Area Directors, serving from 1989–1996.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
He was co-architect and Director of System Development at [[MCI Digital Information Services Company]] on the [[MCI Mail]] service, and worked there with [[Vint Cerf]] to build it into a national email service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2007/02/remembering-mci-mail/229502/ |title=Remembering MCI Mail |author=Wade-Hahn Chan |date=26 February 2007 |website=netgov.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm| title=Who Invented Email, Email History, How Email Was Invented| author=<!--Not stated-->}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|reason=No indication of an editorial policy or authorship.|date=August 2024}} After working at MCI from 1983 to 1985, he held networking-related engineering management positions at [[Ungermann-Bass]], [[The Wollongong Group]], and [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], before founding his own consultancy company, Brandenburg InternetWorking, in 1991.<ref name=BrandenburgCV/> Since founding Brandenburg InternetWorking, he has had a role in founding several other companies and the [[Internet Mail Consortium]].<ref name=BrandenburgCV/>

He was one of the original [[IETF]] Area Directors, serving from 1989–1995.<ref name=BrandenburgCV>{{cite web |title=David H. Crocker |url=https://bbiw.net/resume.pdf |website=Brandenburg InternetWorking |access-date=24 October 2024}}</ref>


==Awards and Honors==
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==External Links==
==External links==
* [https://www.dcrocker.net/ Personal Web Page]
* [https://www.dcrocker.net/ Personal web page]
* [https://icannwiki.org/Dave_Crocker his page at ICANNWiki]
* [https://icannwiki.org/Dave_Crocker Dave Crocker at ICANNWiki]
* [https://bbiw.net/dave.html Brandenburg InternetWorking]
* [https://bbiw.net/dave.html Brandenburg InternetWorking]
* [https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/dcrocker@bbiw.net Datatracker at IETF]
* [https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/dcrocker@bbiw.net Datatracker at IETF] for his email address used since 1992



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Latest revision as of 06:02, 26 December 2024

David Howard Crocker is an American network engineer, renowned for his work on the development of networked email since the early 1970s, when he worked with ARPANET (which became the technical foundation of the Internet) while he was an undergraduate student at UCLA.[1] He was introduced to the ARPANET work by his brother, Steve Crocker, another pioneer of the Internet, who created the ARPA Network Working Group and the Request for Comments (RFC) series of formally published documents in 1969.

Crocker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at UCLA in 1975.[2] After obtaining a bachelor's degree, he became a researcher at RAND Corporation in Los Angeles while pursuing a master's degree.[2] Following shortly after UCLA, RAND was one of a handful of places that had the earliest nodes of the Internet.[3] In 1977 he obtained a Master of Arts degree at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.[2] When he graduated in Computer Science at the University of Delaware, in 1982, he had completed his doctoral work on the MMDF, a message transfer agent program for email servers.[4]

Crocker was the author of RFC 822, which was published in 1982 to define the format of Internet mail messages,[5] and he was the first listed author of the earlier RFC 733 on which it was based in 1977.[6] By 1974, the year before he obtained his bachelor's degree, he had been listed as an author or credited by name in at least 19 RFCs (351, 352, 462, 498, 539, 560, 577, 581, 585, 615, 645, and 651 through 658), most of which were focused on email or the Telnet protocol for client/server computer terminal communication.[7]

He was co-architect and Director of System Development at MCI Digital Information Services Company on the MCI Mail service, and worked there with Vint Cerf to build it into a national email service.[8][9][unreliable source?] After working at MCI from 1983 to 1985, he held networking-related engineering management positions at Ungermann-Bass, The Wollongong Group, and Digital Equipment Corporation, before founding his own consultancy company, Brandenburg InternetWorking, in 1991.[2] Since founding Brandenburg InternetWorking, he has had a role in founding several other companies and the Internet Mail Consortium.[2]

He was one of the original IETF Area Directors, serving from 1989–1995.[2]

Awards and Honors

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Crocker received the 2004 IEEE Internet Award along with Raymond Tomlinson for their work on the "conceptualization, first implementation, and standardization of networked email".[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Crocker, D.; Neigus, N.; Feinler, J.; Iseli, J. (6 November 1973). Arpanet Users Interest Working Group Meeting. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0585. RFC 585.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "David H. Crocker" (PDF). Brandenburg InternetWorking. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  3. ^ https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/6.7/Network-Measurement-Center-1969-1970/
  4. ^ Dave Crocker (November 1979). An Internetwork Memo Distribution Facility – MMDF. Proceedings, Sixth Data Communications Symposium.
  5. ^ David H. Crocker (13 August 1982). Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0822. RFC 822.
  6. ^ David H. Crocker; John J. Vittal; Kenneth T. Pogran; D. Austin Henderson, Jr (21 November 1977). Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0733. RFC 733.
  7. ^ https://bbiw.net/musings.html
  8. ^ Wade-Hahn Chan (26 February 2007). "Remembering MCI Mail". netgov.com.
  9. ^ "Who Invented Email, Email History, How Email Was Invented".
  10. ^ "IEEE Internet Award; Recipient List" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
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