David H. Crocker is a principal with Brandenburg InternetWorking. He designs network-based applications businesses and distributed system architectures. His current efforts focus on the creation of Internet-based businesses built on a solid foundation of customer benefit and revenue potential.
Dave worked in the ARPA network research community during the 1970s, and led product development efforts at MCI and various Silicon Valley companies, during the 1980s. He then founded several startup companies, serving as CEO for one. Dave developed and operated two national email services, designed two others, and was CEO of a community non-profit ISP. His senior management product efforts cover email clients and servers, core protocol stacks for TCP/IP and OSI, network management control stations, and knowledge management tools for product support. For his work on email, Dave is a co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Internet Award.
Dave has been leading and authoring Internet standards for thirty-five years, covering Internet mail, instant messaging, facsimile and EDI. He has also contributed to work on Internet security, ecommerce, domain name service, emergency services, and even some TCP and IP enhancements. He has authored more than 50 IETF Requests For Comments. Dave served as an Area Director for the Internet Engineering Task Force, variously overseeing network management, middleware and the IETF standards process. He is also a Senior Technical Adviser for the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) industry trade association.
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2019 - Oct 15 | on | Celebrating Twenty Years of the UDRP |
2019 - Jul 17 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 17 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 15 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 15 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 15 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 15 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 14 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2019 - Jul 13 | on | How the Internet Can Be Enormously Accelerated Without Fiber-Optic Cables or LEO Satellites |
2017 - Sep 19 | on | Preliminary Thoughts on the Equifax Hack |
2016 - Aug 05 | on | How the Clinton "Village" Transformed Internet Paradigms: Together Making a Difference |
2016 - Aug 03 | on | How the Clinton "Village" Transformed Internet Paradigms: Together Making a Difference |
2016 - Aug 03 | on | How the Clinton "Village" Transformed Internet Paradigms: Together Making a Difference |
2016 - May 28 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 28 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 28 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 28 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 27 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 27 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 27 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2016 - May 26 | on | IETF's Descent Into the Political Rabbit Hole |
2012 - Jun 16 | on | Interoperability Testing Event for DMARC Email Anti-Spoofing Specification |
2011 - Jun 23 | on | Searching Under Lampposts with DKIM |
2009 - Aug 09 | on | Why Can't We Make the Internet Secure? |
2009 - Jul 05 | on | Turn the Table on Content Filtering |
2009 - Apr 30 | on | A Few Thoughts on the Future of Email Authentication |
2007 - Sep 26 | on | Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet? |
2006 - Feb 16 | on | Internet Governance: An Antispam Perspective |
2006 - Feb 16 | on | How Bad is Goodmail? |
2006 - Feb 11 | on | Challenges in Anti-Spam Efforts |
2006 - Feb 10 | on | Challenges in Anti-Spam Efforts |
2006 - Feb 10 | on | Challenges in Anti-Spam Efforts |
2004 - Oct 27 | on | Why DomainKeys is Broken |