Dave Crocker (engineer)
David H. Crocker is an American network engineer, well known for his work on email, since the early 1970s, when he worked for four years at UCLA with ARPANET.[1] He wrote RFC 822, which defines the format of Internet mail messages.[2] He was co-architect and Director of System Development at MCI Mail, where he worked with Vint Cerf to build a national email service.[3][4]
Dave earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology at UCLA in 1975. In 1977 he got a Master in Communication Theory and Research at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. When he graduated in Computer Science at the University of Delaware, in 1982, he had comleted his doctoral work on the MMDF.[5]
He was one of the original IETF Area Directors, serving from 1989-1996. His work as author and mailing list and meeting participant is outstanding, to the point that his character has become emblematic of email development.
References
- ^ Crocker, D.; Neigus, N.; Feinler, J.; Iseli, J. (6 November 1973). Arpanet Users Interest Working Group Meeting. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0585. RFC 585.
- ^ David H. Crocker (13 August 1982). Standard For The Format Of ARPA Internet Text Messages. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC0822. RFC 822.
- ^ Wade-Hahn Chan (26 February 2007). "Remembering MCI Mail". netgov.com.
- ^ "Who Invented Email, Email History, How Email Was Invented".
- ^ Dave Crocker (November 1979). An Internetwork Memo Distribution Facility--MMDF. Proceedings, Sixth Data Communications Symposium.
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