Patricio Poblete

Patricio Poblete is currently the Director of NIC Chile, the domain name registry for .CL, a division of the University of Chile. He is a current councillor on ICANN's ccNSO.

Country:	USA
Email:	ppoblete [at] dcc.uchile.cl
Facebook:	[ppoblete Patricio Poblete]

Other positions include:

• Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo (Canada)
• Director, School of Engineering and Science, University of Chile

Career History

He holds a Math. Eng. degree from the University of Chile, and a M.Math. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Canada. In 1975 he was one of the founders of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile, the first of its kind in Chile. He has been a professor at that department since then, having produced a number of publications, most of them on the fields of Analysis of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Internet Policy. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the School of Engineering and Science of the University of Chile.

Chilean Internet Pioneer

His involvement with the Internet began in 1984, when he and his colleagues at the Department of Computer Science established the a UUCP network linking several universities in Chile. This network was linked a couple of years later to the global internet, and as a consequence in 1987 the department assumed responsibility for operating the domain name registry for .CL, which later became NIC Chile. NIC Chile is one of the largest registries in Latin America, and is known, among other things, for having introduced a dispute resolution system based on arbitration in 1997 (two years before the UDRP). Recently, it was the first Spanish speaking registry to introduce IDN.

ICANN Participation

He has been involved in ICANN affairs since before it existed, having attended an IFWP meeting and the DNSO formation meeting. In 1999, he was elected as one of 3 members from the ccTLD community to the DNSO. He is currently a member of the ccNSO Council, representing the Latin American and Caribbean region; his term is to last from march 2009 until March 2012. He has also previously served on that body, including time spent as its vice-Chair.

Mr. Poblete is also involved with INET.

External Links

• Links and information on many of his publications can be found here.