Steve Crocker

Steve Crocker, ICANN board chairmen and DNSSEC Deployment Initiative member, was inducted into the Internet Society’s Internet Hall of Fame as an Internet Pioneer.

Steve was honored for a lifetime of Internet accomplishments, including starting the RFC series. He talked about the RFCs and the openness of Internet protocols several years ago in his New York Times Op Ed, How the Internet Got Its Rules, on the 40th anniversary of the publication of RFC 1.

Steve continues to push for improvement of Internet infrastructure security, including the deployment of DNSSEC and the adoption of BCP 38.