NRO NC election nominee - David Woodgate

Nominee details

Name

Mr David Woodgate

Resident of

Australia

Organisation

Telstra

Biography

David Woodgate has had a significant role in the engineering of the Internet in Australia since 1990.

During the early '90s, David worked in CSIRO, engineering its national IP backbone and advising on the development of Internet strategy. He was also actively involved in the Australian Internet community, working in the Australian Engineering Working Group and other bodies.

He joined Telstra in 1995, and at various times since then he has been responsible for the network engineering, construction, operations and planning of Telstra's national and international Internet backbone and associated products. He has also had roles in the architecture and planning of Telstra's core data and broadband networks.

David regularly attended IETF meetings between 1993-1999, and he contributed to the development of the Routing Policy Specification Language, for which he is acknowledged in RFC2280 and RFC2622.

David is currently the General Manager for IP Address Planning in Telstra.

Nominated by

Name

Mr David Woodgate

Organisation

Telstra

Motivation

The looming exhaustion of the IPv4 global address pool represents the greatest threat from this decade to the continuing growth of the Internet. With his extensive knowledge of Internet technology, and his intimate involvement in Internet business, David is well-positioned to debate proposals for future global addressing policies and procedures. He is therefore ideally suited to represent to ICANN the addressing policy requirements of the Asia-Pacific region.