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Bill Woodcock | |
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| Born | William Edward Woodcock IV 16 August 1971 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. in Book Arts), 1993 Berkeley High School, 1989 |
| Occupation(s) | Executive Director, Packet Clearing House President, WoodyNet Chairman, Quad9 CEO, EcoTruc and EcoRace |
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Audrey Plonk (m. 2010) |
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Bill Woodcock (born August 16, 1971 in San Francisco, California, United States) is the executive director of Packet Clearing House,[1] the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system; the chairman of the Foundation Council of Quad9;[2] the president of WoodyNet;[3] and the CEO of EcoTruc and EcoRace,[4] companies developing electric vehicle technology for work and motorsport. Bill founded one of the earliest Internet service providers, and is best known for his 1989 development of the anycast routing technique that is now ubiquitous in Internet content distribution networks and the domain name system. [5][6]
- ^ "Packet Clearing House: Nonprofit Profile". guidestar.org. Guidestar. 2003. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ "Quad9 Foundation Council". quad9.net. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ "ARIN : AS715 Registration Information".
- ^ "Connected vehicles: net governance and autonomous transport". Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ^ "Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House". blackhat.com. black hat. 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
In 1989, Bill developed the anycast routing technique that now protects the domain name system.
- ^ Perry, Tekla (2005-02-01). "Bill Woodcock: On an Internet Odyssey". ieee.org. IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
Woodcock put modem banks and servers in his basement and started a business doing e-mail forwarding for corporations, billing them monthly. "I remember the first month, I made 50 bucks," Woodcock recalls. "I was happy about that." He named his little Internet company Zocalo, a pun in Spanish, meaning both "marketplace" and "wall jack." In the fall of 1989, Woodcock started college at the University of California at Santa Cruz; Zocalo, then a stack of hardware that fit on a desk, moved to his dorm room.