[Chapter-delegates] Steve Crocker's leaving the ICANN Board

[Dave Burstein]

Folks

ICANN is crucially important to ISOC, but these changes will probably have
little effect on us.

We derive most of our budget from the .org registrations. Among other
things, new board member Avri Doria is close to ISOC.

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Steve Crocker Exiting ICANN Chair
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[image: Steve Crocker]Term limited. Steve writes,

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.

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. Wired has a great interview
<https://www.wired.com/2012/05/steve-crocker/> about the early days,
including how Steve developed the RFC system. There's also an oral history
of the early days Steve did back in 1991.
<https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107234>

Americans Avri Doria and Sarah Deutsch have been nominated and will likely
join the ICANN Board at the October Abu Dhabi meeting,

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.

Here's Crocker's Wikipedia article and the official NomCom release.

*Stephen D. Crocker* (born October 15, 1944, in Pasadena, California
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California>) is the inventor of
the Request for Comments
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments> series,[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-1>authoring the very
first RFC[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-2> and
many more.[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-3> He
received his bachelor's degree
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree> (1968) and PhD
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhD> (1977) from the University of
California, Los Angeles
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles>.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-4> Crocker is chair
of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
ICANN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN>.[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-5>

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 ARPANET
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET> which were the foundation for
today's Internet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet>.[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-6> For this work,
Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Internet_Award>.[7]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Crocker#cite_note-IEEE_Internet_Award_Recipients-7>

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