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 Wilfried Woeber, born June 10th, 1951, started to work for the Computer Center of Technial University Vienna in 1974 as a machine language and operating system software developer [ www.tu-wien.ac.at ].
After doing system managment and administration work, he was responsible for teaching and coordinating IT-related training activities for both computer center staff, university employees and external organisations.
As a natural development he became involved in the early phases of computer networking (over serial lines, later DECnet, BITNET/EARN and eventually TCP/IP and the Internet).
He then joined the group which was mandated to design, build and operate the Austrian National Research and Education Network (ACOnet [ www.aco.net ] ) and consequently moved to Vienna University.
He is still project coordinator for ACOnet's connection(s) to the European Research Network Projects (GEANT, GN2), has set up and is managing the Local Internet Registry for ACOnet in the framework of RIPE and the RIPE NCC [ www.ripe.net ], and has been a work-package leader (for WP3) in 6NET [ // www.6net.org/ ] from the inception of the project till the end of 2003.
On-going training activities include teaching Network and Internet Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt (close to the Austrian capital Vienna [ www.fh-wn.ac.at ]).
On an international level, he is chairman of the RIPE DataBase Working Group, has been a member of the initial executive board of the RIPE NCC when it became an independent legal entity, and is one of the 3 European members in ICANN's Address Supporting Organisation [ www.aso.icann.org ] since the beginning.
Over the last couple of years he has been pushing the creation of (ACOnet's and) Vienna University's Computer Emergency Response Team, which particpates actively in TERENA's [ www.terena.nl ] as well as Trusted Introducer [ www.ti.terena.nl ] and FIRST [ www.first.org ].
Within CIRCA (Computer Incident Response Coordination Austria [
www.circa.at ], a project of the Austrian ISP Association [ www.ispa.at ], he is a member of the "crisis and emergency management team" and the project's steering committee.
In early 2004 he was invited to join-in with the Austrian IPv6 TaskForce and is now coordinating the activities of the working group on "Infrastructure".
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