Bill Woodcock

Bill Woodcock is the secretary general of Packet Clearing House, the intergovernmental treaty organization that builds and supports critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system. Since entering the Internet industry in 1985, Bill has helped establish hundreds of Internet exchange points.

In 1989, Bill developed the anycast routing technique that now protects the domain name system. In 1998 he was one of the principal drivers of California 17538.4, the world’s first anti-spam legislation. Bill was principal author of the Multicast DNS and Operator Requirements of Infrastructure Management Methods IETF drafts. In 2002 he co-founded INOC-DBA, the security-coordination hotline communications system that interconnected the network operations centers of more than three thousand ISPs around the world. And in 2007, Bill was one of the two international liaisons deployed by NSP-Sec to the Estonian CERT during the Russian cyber-attack.

In 2011, Bill authored the first survey of Internet interconnection agreements, as input to the OECD’s analysis of the Internet economy, and conducted follow-on surveys in 2016 and 2021, with participation from more than 27,000 Internet service providers in 192 countries. Bill served on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, and the Commission on Caribbean Communications Resilience. He chairs the board of the Quad9 Foundation, he’s on the board of directors of the M3AA Foundation, and was on the board of the American Registry for Internet Numbers for fifteen years.

Now, Bill’s work focuses principally on the security and economic stability of critical Internet infrastructure.