(05/2023)
Steve Crocker is president and CEO of Edgemoor Research Institute, a non-profit whose purpose is to bring together non-profit, for-profit, governments, end-users, and other stakeholders to work together to share knowledge and establish voluntary technical solutions to complex data-related public policy challenges. He is currently focused on developing concepts and tools for expression and analysis of policies related to domain name registration data directory services.
Steve was the founding chair of SSAC, serving as chair, liaison to the ICANN board, and member from 2002 to 2017. Dr. Crocker was also a regular member of the ICANN board from 2008 to 2017, including chair from 2011 to 2017.
Steve began work as a programmer in 1961 and has been involved in networking since 1965. As part of the team at UCLA that connected the first host on the Arpanet, Steve chaired the Network Working Group that developed the first set of network protocols, and he initiated the Request for Comments series for documenting protocols.
Steve has been a research and development program manager at DARPA, a senior researcher at USC-ISI, founding director of the Computer Science Laboratory at Aerospace Corp, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, Inc., co-founder, and CTO of CyberCash, Inc., co-founder and CEO of Longitude Systems, Inc., co-founder and CEO of Shinkuro, Inc., and founder, president and CEO of Edgemoor Research Institute.
Steve has a B.A. in mathematics and a PhD in computer science from UCLA. His PhD thesis and research for several years thereafter was on the development and use of program verification tools.
Disclosure of Interest:
- Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s):
President and CEO, Edgemoor Research Institute, https://edgemoorresearch.org
- Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above:
Development of concepts, tools and policy alternatives related to collection and disclosure of registration data.
- Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary:
None
- Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimis stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN:
None
- Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years.
ICANN has paid for my travel to ICANN meetings in connection with my service on SSAC. No other financial transactions with ICANN.
- Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? Please answer "yes" or "no." If the answer is "yes," please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s):
No.