<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">ICANN is crucially important to ISOC, but these changes will probably have little effect on us. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We derive most of our budget from the .org registrations. Among other things, new board member Avri Doria is close to ISOC.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://netpolicynews.com/91-people/895-steve-crocker-exiting-icann-chair">http://netpolicynews.com/91-people/895-steve-crocker-exiting-icann-chair</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><header class="gmail-article-header gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h1 class="gmail-article-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:39px;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:inherit;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1"><a href="http://netpolicynews.com/91-people/895-steve-crocker-exiting-icann-chair" title="Steve Crocker Exiting ICANN Chair" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">Steve Crocker Exiting ICANN Chair</a></h1></header><section class="gmail-article-content gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a id="gmail-startOfPage" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69)"></a><div class="gmail-jwDisqusArticleCounter" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:2px 0px;margin:4px 0px 12px;border-top:1px solid rgb(229,229,229)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;border-top:1px solid rgb(223,223,223);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(223,223,223);background:rgb(249,249,249);text-align:right;padding:4px 8px 4px 20px;margin:0px"><a class="gmail-jwDisqusArticleCounterLink" href="http://netpolicynews.com/91-people/895-steve-crocker-exiting-icann-chair#disqus_thread" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:url("/plugins/content/jw_disqus/jw_disqus/tmpl/images/comment_grey.png") 0px 50% no-repeat transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:11px;padding:2px 0px 2px 20px;margin:0px;line-height:16px">View Comments</a></span><div class="gmail-clr" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px"><img src="http://netpolicynews.com/images/a/Steve-Crocker.jpg" alt="Steve Crocker" dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: middle; display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 3px 8px 8px 3px; float: left;">Term limited. Steve writes, </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;padding-left:2em">We have term limits for directors, no more than three consecutive three year terms.  I have reached my limit and am leaving the Board.  The Board’s chair is chosen each year by the Board.  The formal election of the next chair takes place at the end of the Annual General Meeting in Abu Dhabi.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">He has been active literally since the beginning of the Internet in 1969. He was part of the UCLA team, led by Len Kleinrock, that connected the first Internet node, back in DARPA days. <a href="https://www.wired.com/2012/05/steve-crocker/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">Wired has a great interview</a> about the early days, including how Steve developed the RFC system. There's also an oral history of the early days<a href="https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107234" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none"> Steve did back in 1991.</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">Americans Avri Doria and Sarah Deutsch have been nominated and will likely join the ICANN Board at the October Abu Dhabi meeting,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">I once called Deutsch a hero because of her work on some basic Internet protections while she was with Verizon. She now works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Avri, a friend, has been active in ISOC and U.S. policy issues for many years. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">Here's Crocker's Wikipedia article and the official NomCom release.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Stephen D. Crocker</b> (born October 15, 1944, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">Pasadena, California</a>) is the inventor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">Request for Comments</a> series,<span id="gmail-cite_ref-1" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[1]</a></span>authoring the very first RFC<span id="gmail-cite_ref-2" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-2" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[2]</a></span> and many more.<span id="gmail-cite_ref-3" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-3" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[3]</a></span> He received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">bachelor's degree</a> (1968) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhD" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="PhD" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">PhD</a> (1977) from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">University of California, Los Angeles</a>.<span id="gmail-cite_ref-4" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-4" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[4]</a></span> Crocker is chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN" title="ICANN" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">ICANN</a>.<span id="gmail-cite_ref-5" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-5" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[5]</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px">Steve Crocker has worked in the Internet community since its inception. As a UCLA graduate student in the 1960s, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET" title="ARPANET" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">ARPANET</a> which were the foundation for today's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">Internet</a>.<span id="gmail-cite_ref-6" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-6" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[6]</a></span> For this work, Crocker was awarded the 2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Internet_Award" title="IEEE Internet Award" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">IEEE Internet Award</a>.<span id="gmail-cite_ref-IEEE_Internet_Award_Recipients_7-0" class="gmail-reference" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:9.75px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-IEEE_Internet_Award_Recipients-7" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;color:rgb(19,40,69);text-decoration-line:none">[7]</a></span></p></section></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, WIreless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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