David Crocker

Carl Malamud interviews David Crocker of Silicon Graphics. David is best known as the author of RFC 822, one of the key defining documents for the Internet protocol suite. Crocker gives us his views on what it will take to begin conducting real commerce on the Internet and offers a fascinating comparison between the size of the IETF and the size of the ANSI EDI subcommittee.

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