ICANN Newsletter | Week ending 26 January 2007
A weekly electronic newsletter from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Announcements This Week
ICANN Opens Public Comment Period on ICANN Fee Amendment from .MOBI
26 January 2007
ICANN Posts Summary of Responses On Accountability and Transparency
26 January 2007
ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Belgium
25 January 2007
Call for Nominations for the ccNSO Council
23 January 2007
ICANN in the News
Lack of Space May Force World Wide Web to Implode (Times Online)
26 January 2007
Internet Chucks ".um" for U.S. Isles (BusinessWeek)
24 January 2007
ICANN Hires Journalist Critic (ZDNet)
22 January 2007
ICANN Featured Individual: Dr. Steve Crocker, Chair, Security and Stability Advisory Committee
Dr. Steve Crocker sits on the ICANN board as a non-voting liaison representing the Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet. He is also on the board of the Internet Society and is a volunteer Senior Counselor in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer in the District of Columbia, focusing on the District's creation of a new technology magnet high school.
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. He remains active in Internet standards work through the IETF and IAB. For this work, Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2002 IEEE Internet Award.
Dr. Crocker's experience includes research management at DARPA, USC/ISI and tThe Aerospace Corporation, vice president of Trusted Information Systems, and co-founder of CyberCash, Inc. and Longitude Systems, Inc.
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's was selected as non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board by the Security and Stability Advisory Committee. Board liaison terms end (subject to possible re-appointment) after the conclusion of ICANN's annual meeting each year.
Upcoming Events
12 February 2007 — RIPE NCC Roundtable, Amsterdam, Netherlands
21 February 2007 – 2 March 2007 — APRICOT 2007, Bali, Indonesia
26 February 2007 – 2 March 2007 — APNIC 23, Bali, Indonesia
8 – 9 March 2007 — CENTR General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic
26 – 30 March 2007 — ICANN Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
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