Dmitry Burkov

Education

Burkov graduated from the Saint St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in 1983.

Career

While a student, he worked in the Microsystems Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences on modeling and development of various systems and networks. Between 1983 and 1994, he worked for the Saint St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS). In the late 1980s Burkov co-founded Demos, one of Russia’s first Internet service providers.

Later he was a Board Member at Relcom, another oldest Russian Internet service provider. He also worked in the management of the major Russian telecommunications companies: Comstar, Rostelecom and RTComm.

In 1990, Burkov directly contributed to establishing an Internet connection between Moscow (the Kurchatov Institute) and Finland (the University of Helsinki). In 1995, he participated in creating Russia’s first traffic exchange facility: MSK-IX (Moscow Internet Exchange).

Burkov made a significant contribution to the integration and development process related to the Russian.RU and.РФ TLDs. In particular, he was the first Chairperson of the Council of Coordination Center for the TLD.RU (administrator of the Russian national top level domains RU and РФ) and remained a Council Member until 2009.

He took part in the operations of the Russian Association for Networks and Services.

Burkov ensured Russia’s presence in the following organizations: EUnet, CIX, RIPE National Cadet Corps (the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central). From 2006 onwards, Brurkov is a Board Member and the ICANN Liaison at the RIPE National Cadet Corps. In 2010, Burkov was among those who initiated the establishment of the Eurasia Network Operators’ Group (ENOG) and also took part in Key Generation Ceremony and signing of the Domain Name System root zone using the DNSSEC technology. He became a Trusted Community Representative (TCR), a Crypto Officer for the United States West Coast Facility.

Achievements

• Dmitry Burkov received an Award of Ministerial council of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics for the participation in the development of the Soviet network operating system DEMOS, as well as an Honorary certificate of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.

Membership

Burkov is a member of the Internet Society (ISOC), an international, non-profit organization that states that its mission is "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world".