Steve Crocker has just been elected as Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors, replacing Peter Dengate Thrush who served as Chairman of the Board very well
“””Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the Internet.Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the Arpanet and laid the foundation for today’s Internet. He organized the Network Working Group, which was the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Force and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award. Dr. Crocker also holds an honorary doctorate in mathematics from the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Perú.
Dr. Crocker’s experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and The Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc. His prior public service includes serving as the first area director for security in the the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the IETF Administrative Support Activity Oversight Committee (IAOC), service on the Board of the Internet Society and the Board of The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.
Dr. Crocker earned his B.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA, and he studied artificial intelligence at MIT.
Steve Crocker was selected by the 2008 Nominating Committee to serve as a Board Member. He has been Chair of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) since its inception in 2002, and he served as SSAC’s non-voting Liaison to the ICANN Board until being selected by the Nominating Committee. His current term runs from the end of the 2008 annual meeting through the conclusion of the 2011 annual meeting.
At the organizational meeting following the Annual General Meeting on 10 December 2010, Steve was elected Vice-Chair of the ICANN Board.”
Here is how the resolution read:
Whereas, the following board members were identified as candidates for board chair: Sebastien Bachollet, Cherine Chalaby, and Steve Crocker.
Whereas, the candidates for board chair made presentations to the board.
Whereas, the board then participated in a written straw poll by secret ballot, the results of which were used to inform the bgc’s slate for board chair that the bgc, which is code for board governance committee, presented to the board for approval.
Whereas, the BSG has recommended that the board elect Steve Crocker as Chairman of the Board.
Resolved, Steve Crocker is elected as Chairman of the Board.
