NRO NC candidate David Woodgate

Nominee details

Name
Mr David Woodgate
Resident of
Australia
Organization
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
Organization
Telstra
Motivation
David is passionate about sensible policies being implemented around the world to manage IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 introduction, and believes that his current activity in APNIC's Policy SIG, along with his 18 years' experience in Internet development, forms a solid foundation for his participation in the global policy activities in the NRO.