Candidates

Ching-Heng Ku

Dr. Ching-Heng Ku is the Director of the IP Department of the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC). He has worked in the area of computer networking for many years. He has actively participated in the APNIC meetings since APNIC 18 and has been the chair of the NIR Hostmaster workshop, the co-chair of the DB SIG, and the co-chair of the NIR SIG at the APNIC OPM. He has taken charge of the IP Policy research at TWNIC and is familiar with the responsibilities of the SIG Co-Chair position.

Dr. Ku hopes to contribute to APNIC and to have your support for him to serve as the Policy SIG co-chair.

David Woodgate

David has nearly 20 years involvement in the Internet, and he has had a long involvement in both IETF and APNIC development processes on mailing lists and at meetings. He therefore has a good understanding of the significance and history of policy by consensus in the Internet, and he believes that he can bring this knowledge to aid him in the role of Co-Chair of the APNIC Policy SIG.

During the early '90s, David worked in CSIRO, engineering its national IP backbone and advising on the development of Internet strategy. He was also actively involved in the Australian Internet community, working in the Australian Engineering Working Group and other bodies.

He joined Telstra in 1995, and at various times since then he has been responsible for the network engineering, construction, operations and planning of Telstra's national and international Internet backbone and associated products. He has also had roles in the architecture and planning of Telstra's core data and broadband networks.

David regularly attended IETF meetings between 1993-1999, and he contributed to the development of the Routing Policy Specification Language, for which he is acknowledged in RFC2280 and RFC2622.

David is currently the General Manager for IP Address Planning in Telstra.