David Crocker

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Dave H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. Crocker has been a vital contributor to email standards development since the early 1970s. The author of more than 45 Requests for Comments (RFC), his work includes RFC 733-the first standard for Internet email-and its revision, RFC 822, which remains the core reference for Internet mail formatting. He also has played a major role in the development of standards for MIME file attachments, Internet facsimile and Internet EDI, as well as contributing to work on network management, domain name service, and transport protocol service. Dave's recent focus in the Internet standards arena is on messaging trust and reporting mechanisms. He has been designing network-based applications businesses and system architectures for more than thirty years, first in the ARPA research community and then commercially at MCI Mail and various Silicon Valley companies. His management roles, during the 1980s, covered email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for TCP/IP and OSI, network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support. Dave was a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet award for his work on email.

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