Stephen D. Crocker

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Stephen David (Steve) Crocker, (born October 15, 1944) an American computer scientist, internet pioneer, and inventor of the Request for Comments (RFC) series . He holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D from University of California, Los Angeles in 1968 and 1977 respectively. He was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET which were the foundation for today's internet. Earlier in the 60s, he was affiliated with MIT , and worked with Richard Greenblatt and Donald Eastlake on The Greenblatt Chess Program or Mac Hack VI.

=Selected Publications=

1967 ...

 * Richard Greenblatt, Donald Eastlake, Stephen D. Crocker (1967). The Greenblatt Chess Program. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium, pdf from The Computer History Museum or as pdf or ps from DSpace at MIT
 * Steve Crocker (1969). Host Software. RFC 1
 * Steve Crocker (1969). Documentation conventions. RFC 3
 * Steve Crocker (1978). Design considerations for a QM-1 based multimicroprocessor emulation system. MICRO 1978
 * Donald Eastlake, Steve Crocker, Jeffrey I. Schiller (1994). Randomness Recommendations for Security. RFC 1750

2000 ...

 * Donald Eastlake, Steve Crocker, Jeffrey I. Schiller (2005). Randomness Requirements for Security. RFC 4086
 * Howard Eland, Russ Mundy, Steve Crocker, Suresh Krishnaswamy (2007). Requirements Related to DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchor Rollover. RFC 4986
 * Alexander McKenzie, Steve Crocker (2012). Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network. RFC 6529
 * Steve Crocker, Scott Rose (2013). Signaling Cryptographic Algorithm Understanding in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). RFC 6975

=External Links=
 * Steve Crocker from Wikipedia
 * Steve Crocker | Internet Hall of Fame
 * Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet | Internet Hall of Fame, May 18, 2012
 * Steve Crocker - Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer, May, 2012, YouTube Video


 * The RFC Series: Steve Crocker — RIPE Labs, December 2019

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