2026-09-23 –, ROOM ALFA
Project Jake is a fresh approach to collection and disclosure of registration data. It provides support for a wide variety of policies, distributed operation, and modern authentication and authorization processes. It uses RDAP and RFC 9560 protocols with substantial extensions.
Steve Crocker is CEO and President of Edgemoor Research Institute (ERI). ERI facilitates the development and analyses of proposed and existing policies regarding the collection and access to registration data, including personally identifiable information. ERI serves the public interest by creating and promulgating concepts and urgently needed tools that provide precise specifications of data collection, labeling, and access. ERI’s flagship Project Jake is a practical framework for Internet Domain Name registration data disclosure.
Steve Crocker is an Internet pioneer and computer scientist with experience in academia, government, and industry. He earned his B.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA. He managed research at DARPA in the early 1970s, founded the computer science research laboratory at The Aerospace Corporation in 1981, and co-founded CyberCash, Inc. He is an ACM Fellow, and his honors include the 2002 IEEE Internet Award, an honorary doctorate from the University of San Martín des Porres in Lima, Perú, the 2018 Strowger Award, J. Warren McClure School, Ohio University, founding membership in the Internet Hall of Fame Pioneers, and both the Jonathan B. Postel Award and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Internet Society.
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 (IETF) and initiated the Request for Comment (RFC) series of notes through which protocol designs are documented and shared.
Steve Crocker held leadership positions in ICANN starting 2002, first as founding chair of ICANN’s Security and Stability Committee (SSAC). He served on the ICANN Board from 2003 to 2017, first as a liaison from SSAC and then nine years as a director. For the last six-and-a-half of those years, he chaired the board, overseeing the recruiting of two CEOs and the transition in 2016 to independence from the NTIA agreement.