Steve Crocker Quotations

When the IETF started 20 years ago, I was not paying close attention to networking issues, but shortly after that I did get involved.

Any time we go against James River, it's going to be a big match.

It's quite worrisome. There isn't a clear fix for this as it stands.

It's like they built a better bomb by having it enriched.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

The most important thing for the IETF to do is to continue to organise and manage itself to develop the highest quality technical work and to do so in an efficient and open way that is inviting to new people.

An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!

Usenet is 'the last uncensored mass medium.'

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.