Bill Manning

Bill Manning is a member of the ARIN Board of Trustees.

Bill has been involved in networking since 1979, when he joined Texas Instruments to build out its global IP network. He then joined Rice University and was part of the team that built and ran SESQUINET. He was instrumental in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFnet regional networks to commercial networks. He served on the COREN and CALREN-2 technical committees. He joined ISI in the Routing Arbiter project and currently he serves on the research staff at USC's Information Sciences Institute. His primary technical interests have been in network operations and naming systems.

Bill is active in the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer. He was responsible for specifying the method for adding NSAP support to the DNS, and then developed and implemented a plan to expand the Internet root server system to add four new nodes.

Bill has served on the Board since January 2002. He was re-elected in October of 2004 and 2007. His current term expires 31 December 2010.