Bill Woodcock (born August 16, 1971 in San Francisco, California, United States) is the executive director of Packet Clearing House,[1] the international organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system; the chairman of the Foundation Council of Quad9;[2] the president of WoodyNet;[3] and the CEO of EcoTruc and EcoRace,[4] companies developing electric vehicle technology for work and motorsport.

Woodcock was one of the founders of Netsurfer Digest, the first online periodical about the World Wide Web, and served as its production manager from 1994 through 2005.

In 2001, together with Sean Donelan and John Todd, Woodcock constructed the "Inter-Network Operations Center Dial-By-Autonomous-System-Number" (INOC-DBA) infrastructure protection hotline communications system.

[61] This effort centered on a "We the People" petition and an explanatory web site,[62] and, although ultimately unsuccessful, received much favorable attention in the press and Internet governance community.

[63] In 2019 and 2020, Woodcock organized the successful opposition to the attempted $1.1bn sale of the .ORG top-level domain to private equity firm Ethos Capital, and serves on the board of directors of the Cooperative Corporation of dot-Org Registrants (CCOR).

[64][65][66] In March, 2022, Woodcock was one of the lead authors, along with Bart Groothuis, Eva Kaili, Marina Kaljurand, Steve Crocker, Jeff Moss, Runa Sandvik, John Levine, Moez Chakchouk and some eighty other members of the Internet governance and cybersecurity community, of an open letter entitled Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions.

[96] In addition, he was principal author of the Multicast DNS[26] and Operator Requirements of Infrastructure Management Methods[27][97] IETF drafts, and contributed to the IP anycast RFC.