Wilfried Woeber
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| Country: | Austria |
| Email: | woeber[at]cc.univie.ac.at |
Wilfried Woeber is a senior staff at the Central IT Department, Network Operations Group of Vienna University. He is responsible in managing the internet protocol (IP) address for the Austrian National Research and Education Network (ACOnet) and the operations of the Vienna Internet Exchange (VIX). He also serves as part-time security team member of (ACOnet-CERT) and member of advisory team of the Austrian National CERT (CERT.at). Wilfried also provides training for the Austrian ISP Association on IPV6. He also promotes new technology to the internet community particularly in his country.[1] He is a member of the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council.[2]
Career Background
Wilfried’s career in Information Technology began in 1974. He was hired by the Physics Department of the Technical University of Vienna. He worked with a group at the department’s computer center that was responsible in establishing the ACOnet. During the latter of 1980 to early 1990s, he served as the coordinator EBONE Operation Team (EOT), a pan-European international networking service formed by the EBONE Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). EOT provided internal backbone service and inter-continental neutral access service to its members. In 1996, his group at the Vienna University established the Vienna Internet eXchange (VIX). In 2002, he led the WP3 Basic Network Services 6NET project to test if IPv6 is ready for deployment for the next generation of internet and to find out possible issues that would affect the security and stability of the DNS. [3] [4] In 2011, the RIPE NCC Executive Board appointed Wilfried to assume the vacant position at the NRO Number Council (NC) for three years from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014.[5]